- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:15:38 +0100 (BST)
- To: michaelm@netsol.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> Ahhh! You want to make it ILLEGAL to dereference a namespace to anything. If you dereference the namespace name then without some extra knowledge about some special circumstance that you are in, you have no reason to suspect that the data returned has anything to do with the namespace. <x xmlns="http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk"/> is a document containing an element in a namespace named after my home page. The fact that I used that URI to name the namespace in this document in no way affects the resource identified by the URI. John's proposal was that if you wanted a URI to refer to the namespace you could use data:, prepended to the namespace name, which would be data:,http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk here. David
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