- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:56:32 +0100
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: "Misha Wolf" <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, www-tag@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, public-xg-mmsem@w3.org, newsml-g2@yahoogroups.com
Hi David, Haven't we just gone round in a very big circle? > Misha, > > Would it be feasible to mandate a particular prefix as part of all > taxonomy IDs, such as "code:"? For example: > > < . . . xml:id="code:12345" . . . > > < . . . xml:id="code:foo" . . . > code:12345 is not a valid QName. That's the whole point for proposing an alternative to QNames. (In other words, the problem is not URI construction per se, but encoding those URIs using QNames.) There is no reason why this _should_ be a valid QName, since QNames were devised essentially for naming elements and attributes. But that doesn't help when abbreviating URIs. Regards. Mark -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@x-port.net | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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