- From: <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:53:39 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Larry Masinter scripsit: > This shouldn't be legal, and if it is, it's a problem with the > namespace recommendation, which should be updated to explicitly > disallow using two different strings for namespace names that > correspond to URIs that are, by the URI normalization rules, > equivalent. Too late. 2500 messages on xml-uri@w3.org established that we can't change the interpretation of namespace names now. They are only reliably equivalent if they are byte-for-byte equivalent, and using relative URIs as namespace names leads to undefined results. -- One art / There is John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter
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