- From: Anthony B. Coates <abcoates@TheOffice.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:17:20 +0100
- To: xml-names-editor <xml-names-editor@w3.org>
Given the current TAG discussion on TBL's suggestion, that URI references that represent abstract ideas should have the form of a URI with a single # appended so that they can be identified as not referring to concrete representations, I would like to suggest that the XML Core WG liaise with TAG to resolve this, and update the namespace IRI reference examples to match. If TBL's suggestion is accepted, I assume it would required nothing more than appending a # to each example IRI reference in Namespaces 1.1. It would send a strong and visible signal that people should think about the types of IRI references that they use for namespaces (since it would almost certainly get coverage in the technical press). I assume the WG doesn't want Namespaces 1.1 to contain a discussion of could/should/might happen if you dereference a namespace IRI reference that is an IRI, so adding # to the example references would be a cheap way of making people think a bit more about what namespace IRI references really mean. This is all predicated on the acceptance of TBL's suggestion, but I do think it would be valuable if this could make it into Namespaces 1.1, since it could be a *long* wait for version 1.2. Cheers, Tony. ==== Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) http://www.mddl.org/
Received on Friday, 6 September 2002 07:19:49 UTC