- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:24:48 -0400
- To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@microsoft.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>, "John Aldridge" <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
At 10:20 AM 7/20/00 -0700, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote: >If you don't want that possibility then don't use a URI space that has >this behavior - it is up to you, see [1]. I forgot to reply to this piece. I don't always have control over which URIs I use for namespaces. The W3C has already taken the (unfortunate, IMHO) stand of using URIs based on the http scheme, and it's not like I can say "I'll just forget about XLink, SVG, Schemas, XSLT, XML itself, and everything else from the W3C." Worse than that, I have no control over documents people send me - I don't look forward to arguing with partners, vendors, and everyone else over the capitalization or non-capitalization of the domain name. Assuming that people have significant control over the namespaces they have to process is a fundamental mistake. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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