Re: [Fwd: xmlns, uri+name pairs or just uris..? Clarification n eeded.]

Graham Klyne wrote:

> > > It seems to me that the requirement to find the
> > > namespace-related
> > > portion of a URI in isolation is not reasonable.

Agreed.

> > > It's also
> > > not clear to me
> > > what purpose it serves.

One purpose would be reserialization of the model.  Doesn't anyone else need
to do this?  We do.  Our processors are essentially filters: import RDF,
modify it, export RDF, pass it down the chain.

Of course, our system doesn't concatanate the URI, so recovering the
namespace is not an issue.

Perry