- From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:39:33 EST
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>are we talking about whether the following elements are >equivalent or not? > > <cars:part xmlns:cars="http://www.cars.com/xml"/> > <cars:mlpart xmlns:cars="http://www.cars.com/x"/> > <cars:xmlpart xmlns:cars="http://www.cars.com/"/> > >if so, I've once asked James Clark about this, and his answer was >that "the XML namespaces spec doesn't make them equivalent", >but on the other hand, that an XML system using namespaces >can treat them all the same if it wants to. Scream, wail, moan. If the spec doesn't make them equivalent, a system that treats them as equivalent (e.g., a system that implements DAV as currently specified) is going to run into trouble when it encounters XML generated by somebody that didn't think they were equivalent. -- /=============================================================\ |John Stracke | My opinions are my own | S/MIME & HTML OK | |francis@ecal.com|============================================| |Chief Scientist | NT's lack of reliability is only surpassed | |eCal, Inc. | by its lack of scalability. -- John Kirch | \=============================================================/ --
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