- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:19:46 -0500
- To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- CC: XML List <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>, xsl-editors@w3.org
Andrew Layman wrote: > > Regarding the discussion on non-retrievable URIs, you may want to look into > the URN spec, and more generally, at the paper "Naming and Addressing: URIs, > URLs, ... " at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/. I am not so upset about non-retrivable URIs in general as non-retrievable *URLs*. http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.txt "This document specifies a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the syntax and semantics of formalized information for **location and access of resources on the Internet.**" Furthermore, that document defines the http:-syntax URL as being tied to the HTTP protocol which it clearly is not when it is abused as in xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0" I haven't yet heard a defense (credible or otherwise) of this nasty and non-intuitive practice. If you don't want your URI to be locatable and retrievable on the Internet then *please do not use the URL syntax!* -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Alabama's constitution is 100 years old, 300 pages long and has more than 600 amendments. Highlights include "Amendment 393: Amendment of Amendment No. 351", "Validation of Laws Regulating Court Costs in Randolph County", "Miscegenation laws", "Bingo Games in Russell County", "Suppression of dueling". - http://www.legislature.state.al.us/ALISHome.html
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