- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:17:27 -0400
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > > > 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. > > Well. The XML namespaces recommendation allows URI references. True, but are there any widely 'deployed' XML Namespaces which are in fact full URI references i.e. have a non-null fragment-id? > > XML namespace names in URI schemes other than HTTP are very common. So we > need to clarify whether it's a requirement to map those QNames as well. I > think if we don't, this mapping isn't generic, and there's little value in > discussing it here... > Having looked at this issue, there certainly are corner cases which will 'break' any algorithm, however, having an algorithm that covers the 80/20 point, is IMHO, far better than nothing. That is to say, partial progress is still progress. Jonathan
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