namespace URI result?

At Cafe Con Leche, Elliotte Rusty Harold reports:
>the W3C announced in Montreal that they have officially 
>decided not to decide what to do about relative namespace 
>URIs for the time being (though that decision doesn;t seem 
>to have propagated to the main mailing lists yet). They will 
>deprecate them, that is recommend that no one use them, but 
>they will not forbid their use, at least not yet; and they 
>will not venture to say what they do or do not mean or how 
>they are or are not to be compared. This issue may be revisted 
>in the future.  (from http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/)

Is there some kind of official statement from the W3C explaining this, or
even a somewhat more comprensive explanation of what this means for future
development?

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

Received on Wednesday, 23 August 2000 15:41:18 UTC