RE: Comments on Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web

Chris Ferris was making this same point wrt referring to contents of WSDL
files and use of QNames earlier today.  Resolution of this in a web services
friendly way would be very nice.

Cheers,
Dave

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> Norman Walsh
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> Subject: Re: Comments on Architectural Principles of the
> World Wide Web
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> / "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org> was heard to say:
> | A QName is a perfectly good reference to something which is
> | identified by a URI.
>
> Absent a mapping from foo:bar to an absolute URI reference, we can't
> say what URI identifies foo:bar.
>
> Until rdfmsQnameUriMapping-6 is resolved, I'm not sure I can agree
> wholeheartedly with the assertion that qnames are references to things
> identified by a URI. I fear that URIEquivalence-15 will have some
> bearing as well (though perhaps not).
>
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