Re: URIs quack like a duck

> In the case of the namespace spec, the obligation to support any properties
> of namespace names beyond the fact that they are syntactic URIs seems
> questionable.

Some of the proposals have involved comparing the bytes returned by
dereferencing a namespace name using an http uri scheme.

that would change the answer to the question

is

<x:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/foo.html">
...

an XSL stylesheet

from the current answer of "No" to a proposed answer of
"yes" if foo.html is a copy of the html page returned by
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform, the document is an XSL
stylesheet (until such time as anyone edits the text in either file.)

This would not be an acceptable change.

David

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 10:56:39 UTC