Re: something for Namespaces 1.0 3rd Ed

> It was not until I cut and pasted that sentence into this
> (mercifully unformatted) email message to ask what the heck
> was going on that I realized that the things that looked 
> like forward slashes were uppercase I's in italic sans-serif.
> (I've never been a big fan of sans-serif for body text.)

It's just what the xmlspec stylesheet produces for <var>I</var>.

> I suggest for the upcoming 3rd Edition that we change this
> somehow.  Either use a different letter than an I [why are
> we using an I for URI?] or do some else to make it clearer.

I'm not sure why it's I.  It may be because 1.0 2e was derived from
1.1, where it's an IRI, not a URI.  We could change it to U.

At some point, we'll have to consider the fate of Namespaces 1.1 in
the light of whatever happens to XML 1.1.

-- Richard

Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:30:33 UTC