- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:03:18 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Paul Prescod wrote: > > Without making the argument myself, I'll point you to some relevant > information: The document in question is specific to URIs that are being used as _resource_ identifiers, not as namespace identifiers. The primary use of a namespace URI is not to be dereferenced, it is to uniquely identify a set of elements. So the concerns on that page are at most secondary here. The single most important criteria for a namespace name is to have it be memorable. I've received complaints from authors that the XHTML namespace is too hard to remember. I've also received requests from authors that I ensure that the XBL namespace is not "as bad as the XHTML one". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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