- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:53:36 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: abrahams@acm.org, xml-uri@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:57:04PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > > > 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. Agreed. Comparing bit for bit on what is returned negates any possibility for evolution or content negotiation of the thing used to describe the namespace. -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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