- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:20:56 -0500
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > But aren't http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema and > http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema# completely equivalent when > it comes to > using them for XML Schema processing? No. They are two different namespaces. The namespace rec specifies that namespace URIs are to be compared as literal strings. > > > If RDF has a different notion of namespaces than the rest of XML, > > It just has an odd method of using them... but you *cannot* > restrict people > to using a few special characters at the end of their RDF namespaces, > because you could have alphanumeric strings that when concatenated, still > point to the correct URI representation of a property. > > *Rule*: A namespace is any URI allowable in the XML Names specification. > Of course. It is the rule unique to RDF that a qname is converted to a URI by concatenation of a namespace URI and local name that causes the problem, and desire to restrict namespace URIs to those ending with '#'. Nowhere else does one find such URIs. -Jonathan
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