Re: URIEquivalence-15 and IRIs

On 05/06/2002 03:33:08 noah_mendelsohn wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, that's one of the reasons we are suggesting caution :-)

> 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.

AFAIK, there are no unresolved issues of URI/IRI matching relating to
resource retrieval.  This TAG issue relates to URI/IRI equivalence in
the absence of retrieval.

Regards,
Misha





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