- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 04 Mar 2002 17:25:19 -0500
- To: TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 15:44, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > In traditional XML markup use, element and attribute > types are special in that they are > only occasionally defined, and those are defined rarely. > But at a basic level there is no difference > between the use of a URI reference > with a QName and its use without as in an href. It is a reference, and > I would hate to make all references which used the syntactic > device of a qname have to pay by having double the number > of roundtrips to dereference. Wow. We've come a long long way from the original story that namespace URIs (and QNames) were just identifiers and dereferencing them (like href) wasn't an issue at all. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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