I gather this is relevant to an issue currently
under discussion...
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
Forwarded message 1
On behalf of the XML Plenary chairs
(one of whom recently had his laptop stolen)...
We are decided:
"3. Conclusions
By a large margin, the XML Plenary endorses the proposal
given below.
[...]
4.2 Proposal
Proposed: to deprecate the use of relative URI references
in namespace declarations; that is: to say that while they
conform to the Namespace Recommendation of January
1999, later specifications such as DOM, XPath, etc. will
define no interpretation for them. "
-- Results of W3C XML Plenary
Ballot on relative URI References
In namespace declarations
3-17 July 2000
Dave Hollander
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
6 September 2000
http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/