- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:20:48 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding wrote: >>> 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. >> >> 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 I'd say anyone running link normalization software on his xmlns's is begging to please get into deep trouble. I understand your nervousness about the fact that the IRI spec isn't final, but I find this argument to be akin to "forbid cissors because people might run with them". -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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