RE: issue: XML Namespace Concatenation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Greg Stein
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: Re: issue: XML Namespace Concatenation
> 
> 
> I agree with Geoff.
> 
> mod_dav certainly treats the namespace/name thing as a tuple, 
> rather than a
> concatenation. In other words, ns="DAV:" name="foo" is different from
> ns="DAV:f" name="oo".
> 
> It seems that I recall one conversation that said that most clients and
> servers treated it that way.
> 
> Cheers,
> -g
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:30:59PM -0500, Clemm, Geoff wrote:
> > I would want us to remove any reference to concatentation,
> > and to just say that a tag name is identified by the pair:
> > <namespace-URI, xml-node-name>
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Geoff
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Crawford [mailto:ccjason@us.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:09 PM
> > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> > Subject: issue: XML Namespace Concatenation
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > In a recent discussion, several people expressed dissatisfaction with
> > rfc2518  section 23.4 which says that the Namespace URI and the 
> local part
> > are concatenated to determine the qualified tag name.  I think 
> someone even
> > suggested that it was on the issues list and was going to be 
> changed.  As I
> > look at the issues list, there is an item for it, but it 
> doesn't look like
> > it was resolved to take any action.
> > 
> > What's the verdict on this issue?
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------
> > Phone: 914-784-7569,   ccjason@us.ibm.com
> 
> -- 
> Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
>

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