- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 08:02:55 -0400
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:53:11PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: > So restricting the algorithm to a specific subset of qnames will make it > unusable for many specs. I didn't say that there wouldn't be casualties 8-), only that it was a solution usable for multiple URI schema. > What if the namespace name isn't a URI (but a URI reference like > "http://foo/bar#test")? I believe that a namespace is a resource, not a document fragment, and as such, should be identified by a URI, not a URI reference. > Proposal: > > define a new schema like "qn:" and map > > (uriref, name) > > to something like > > qn:uri-escaped-utf8(name):uri-escaped(uriref) The enormous cost of deploying new URI schemes has been talked about here (and elsewhere) before. I would recommend that we look for solutions that reuse the HTTP scheme, and only consider a new one as a last resort. MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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