- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:06:25 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, xml-uri@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: >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 relative URIs, being non-unique, should be deprecated? >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. No, that's fine. I was hoping someone would say its the document but I kind of figured that wasn't the case... -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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