- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:59:12 -0400
- To: michaelm@netsol.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
Michael Mealling wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:25:36AM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: > > Michael Mealling wrote: > > > >> I'm becoming more comfortable with creating a new attribute that > >> does identify the namespace in the URI sense of identification. > > > > Glad to hear that. One of the most compelling arguments for a > > new attribute is that it relieves the pressure on the xmlns attribute > > to be all things to all people. > > Help me clarify some things: > > The viewpoint of 'namespace as differentiator only' is that it > only has to be unique within what scope? The document, the application > or the universe? The answer seems obvious, but that's probably because I misunderstood your question. The namespace name is a character string, nothing more. It just happens to have the form of a URI, but in principle (though not according to the namespace spec, of course) it could be any string that we'd expect to be unique (i.e., no one else would choose it by accident) within the set of all possible character strings. If we have another attribute for namespace identification in the URI sense, then there's no reason to demand anything more than literal, uninterpreted, textual identification from the xmlns attribute. So I suppose the direct answer to your question is that the scope is the universe of character strings, but that's probably not what you're looking for. Paul Abrahams
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