- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:33:08 -0400
- To: Misha.Wolf@reuters.com
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Misha Wolf writes: >> Reasons to be careful include that the decisions taken on these matters: >> - will be with us for a long time :-) >> - will affect URI matching in XML Namespaces >> - will affect URI matching in RDF That bit about namespace matching makes me nervous. Last time namespace matching came up I think we generated 3000+ emails, and only barely eked out consensus. Seriously: I think we should approach changes to namespace matching with great trepidation, if at all. As an implementor, I can confirm that namespaces are already a very serious impediment to truly high performance XML processing. Any further changes (or even clarifications) to matching rules should be evaluated with great care. The performance considerations for namespace matching (and perhaps for RDF as well) are not necessarily the same as when URIs are used for resource retrievals. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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