- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:15:42 -0800
- To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Dare Obasanjo wrote: > Hopefully if the architecture document says anything in this direction > it will lean away from URI opacity. The opacity of URIs is a problem for > in XML application, specifically those that use XML namespaces. A number > of issues that come up in XML applications would be a lot easier to > solve (e.g. how does one version XML namespaces?) if namespace names > were structured and not just glorified UUIDs. It seems to me that it is *never* appropriate to guess at media-types or semantics by picking apart URIs in a computer program. It is entirely fair and often desirable to use the design of URIs to convey information about the hierarchical structure of an information space, and to provide a suggestion to the human reader about what might be there. -Tim
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