- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:13:04 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- CC: abrahams@acm.org, xml-uri@w3.org
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. I agree with you. But I'd add that creating a new attribute would relieve much of the pressure for making that change in the first place by solving the underlying problem in a different way. (If anyone asks, the underlying problem is that people want somehow to attach descriptive information -- I'm deliberately using a very general term here -- to namespaces.) Paul Abrahams
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