- From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@cardiff.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:14:35 -0700
- To: "'Norman Walsh'" <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
| you can do something with this: | | SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" | | that you _cannot_ do with this: | | PUBLIC "urn:uuid:89793274983729473298473928" | | To me, that IS a difference and a significant one. >Uhm. What exactly can you do with the former that you can't do with >the latter? I think Norm is pointing to an untested assumption here: that developers are going around pasting Namespace URIs into browser location bars. I don't see that happening--instead, they paste Namespace URIs (and error messages, and method names, and most anything else) into their favorite search engine and go from there. An additional advantage of the latter approach is that it can locate things avaliable even over non-HTTP protocols, which would be terribly confusing at best to point to with http://... .micah
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