- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:15:45 +0100
- To: Miles Sabin <MSabin@interx.com>
- CC: uri@w3.org
Miles Sabin wrote: > > Sadly HTTP URLs _will_ be resolved even when that's unnecessary > for them to be meaningful as bare identifiers. And if they are, > then servers (particularly ones hosting extremely popular DTDs > or namespaces) might well be in trouble. This is already the case (the load is sparse, I reckon) but when I send a XML snippet by email with let's say: <example xmlns:"http://dyomedea.com/ns/scheme-abuse"/> I have been surprised the first time it has happened, but I can be sure that I'll get some hits on my server (from people who will follow the link show by their mailer, from people who will see a link in the web archive from this list ot from robots that will follow the link in the archive). If this snippet is included in a XML document, I will also get hits from attempts to validate the document through W3C XML Schema validators such as XSV that follows the "permission" to try to find a schema there as written in the XML Schema specification. My 0,02 Euros Eric (amazed that he can know who is using "his" namespaces by looking at his http server logs) > -- > Miles Sabin InterX > Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews > +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England > msabin@interx.com http://www.interx.com/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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