Re: namespace URI result?

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
> 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,

Real Soon Now. Somebody threw a spanner in the works
by stealing Michael's laptop. (and various other
things threw various other spanners in the works
before that...)

> or
> even a somewhat more comprensive explanation of what this means for future
> development?

You'll have to judge for yourself whether the outcome
is sufficiently comprehensive.

If you find it insufficient, you might encourage
us to persue...

an XML-URI Activity Proposal for discussion
Dan Connolly (Tue, Jul 11 2000) 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jul/0025.html

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Wednesday, 23 August 2000 15:56:37 UTC