- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:01:39 -0400
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Al Gilman wrote: > At 11:34 AM 2000-05-26 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: > >In other words: I think the correct solution here is that the XML > >Namespace document must say that Namespaces must be identified by > >what the ABNF calls "absoluteURI" and that the URIs used by XML > >Namespaces must be globally unique. But then again, I'm of the camp > >that thinks you eventually want to resolve these things into some > >sort of document that describes the namespace. > > > > [where "some sort of document" may be defined as a query and not a static > bucket of bits...] correct... > But then it shouldn't now say that the URIs used by XML Namespaces _must_ > be unique. > > It should say "Think twice before using one that is not reliably unique." Yes... > The following compromise reflects a reasonable balance of backward and > forward compatibility: > > a) perform syntactic processing based on literal comparison of ns-attr > > b) save for post-syntactic processing any context information implicated in > the evaluation of xml:base; if this varies across namespaces in the > document, save the relation. > > c) Warn on non-globally-unique ns-attr I'd have to noodle on it a bit but that sounds reasonable to me... -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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