- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:13:38 -0700
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> Joshua Allen wrote: > > This seems fine to me. But for God's sake let's make sure any guidance > > on this makes it very clear that this is a namespace *name*, and > > although it may function as a stand-in for the namespace URI, it is > > *not* the URI. > > I can find no distinction in any normative prose anywhere between > "namespace name" and "namespace URI". -Tim Yeah, that's the problem. All of the existing docs play fast and loose with the terms, and so you end up with people assuming that the namespace name IS the uri OF THE namespace. Someone needs to fix the docs, or at least in the TAG finding on using http: scheme in namespace name, should explain to users that the http: URL is the uri OF A WEB PAGE and NOT the uri OF A NAMESPACE.
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