Re: Are *relative* URIs as namespace nemes considered harmful? from David Carlisle on 2000-05-23 (xml-uri@w3.org from May 2000)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:51:31 +0100 (BST)
To: jjc@JCLARK.COM
CC: timbl@w3.org, xml-uri@w3.org
Message-Id: <200005230751.IAA20076@nag.co.uk>

> That's not the problematic case.  The problematic case is when you have
> two URI references that are identical when compared as strings but refer
> to different resources (because they have different base URIs).

I don't understand why this is a problem.
If I took the above quote out of this namespace thread and stuck it in a
thread about the merits of using the HTML <a> element. Then in what way
would it be diferent. The href="foo.html" is the same string but refers
to different resources (because they have different base URIs).

David

Received on Tuesday, 23 May 2000 03:52:55 UTC