Re: Grinding to a halt on Issue 27.

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 02:51, 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.
> >
> > 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,

But the heart of the matter is whether normalization happens
with the blessing of the specification or not.

Please give an example of a case where software is obliged
by specs to normalize identifiers before the namespace processor
sees them. I really can't follow your argument without one.

>  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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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

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