RE: XML Namespaces vs. RDF

Hello,

I fail to see the conflict.  

On Tuesday, July 20, 1999 Perry writes:
> It's this business about concatanating that worries me.  The XML namespace
> spec never mentions concatanation as a valid mechanism.  Indeed, the
> non-normative appendices seem to imply that the expansion of 
> qualified names should be treated as ordered pairs.
> 
How we consider the expansion for definition is much different than
algorithms
for processing. There is no limitation on how the namespace information is
to
be processed.

> ...
> Which is right?  Am I reading too much into Appendix A.3?  

Yes.

> Is the
> concatanation mechanism suggested by RDF (and WebDAV, for that matter), a
> deviation from the XML namespace spec?

No, not only is A3 non-normative, it does not describe processing.

The only issue that I see is the fact that concatenation loses information,
as
your example shows. I this case the loss of the identity of the parts that
made
up the URI.  This does not seem to be a problem since the purpose is to
identify
a web object, but I leave that to the experts in the RDF to decide.


Dave Hollander
Co-chair, XML Schema Working Group
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Received on Wednesday, 21 July 1999 11:27:59 UTC