- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:19:36 -0400
- To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, uri@w3.org
Paul Grosso scripsit: > XML (more accurately, Namespaces in XML [1]) is not trying to say > anything about the meaning of a URI, it defines XML namespaces. > > I am not disagreeing what those two URIs mean, but the Namespaces > in XML spec says: > > An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI reference.... > > URI references which identify namespaces are considered identical when they > are exactly the same character-for-character. Note that URI references which > are not identical in this sense may in fact be functionally equivalent. > Examples include URI references which differ only in case.... Note, however, that Namespaces does not go so far as to say that namespaces which are not the same char-for-char are necessarily distinct. AFAIK all implementations treat them as distinct, but it is not actually required. -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All jcowan@reutershealth.com she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. Ulysses, "Oxen"
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