- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:51:48 -0700
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
>> More importantly, it is because the namespaces draft cannot declare >> them >> to be different because a normalizer has every right (and in some >> cases >> a responsibility) to normalize those URIs before the namespace >> processor >> even sees them. > > For example? > > I find this argument hard to follow without a concrete example here. Normalization of identifiers is often done by link management systems to reduce unnecessary duplication of URI trees by sloppy human folks, since such duplication effects both downstream caches and the valuation function applied by third-party indexers. It was one of the most common feature requests for MOMspider. I expect that similar normalizers will work on xmlns attributes, with or without blessing of the specification, because such duplication might have significant performance implications on a system that processes and combines XML from many sources (e.g., Cocoon, blogs, etc.). Besides, its just untidy, and there's no shortage of anal folks in the Web content industry. ....Roy
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