- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:38:58 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > Either namespaces are web resources in every sense of the word, > and hence any sort of URI reference the author chooses > may be used to point to them, or not. <proof rhetoricalType="ironic"> Empty URI references refer to the document in which they are contained. The empty namespace name refers to the non-existent namespace, *not* to the document in which it is contained. And if not, the design Therefore, namespaces are *not* web resources in every sense of the word. Q.E.D. </proof> Statements of the form "Either you are for us, or you are against us" simply don't help get us unstuck. Try some other strategy. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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