Re: Moving on (was Re: URIs quack like a duck)

> Then how do you reconcile relative URIs with that requirement?
They are allowed but give you a namespace name which isn't globally
unique as do several absolute URI
data:,david
mailto:david
file:///dev/null

If the creator of the namespace desides he can live with this
lack of uniqueness then so be it. (but I wouldn't object to
the namespace rec using stronger language to discourage the practice)

This lack of uniqueness is no reason at all to change the namespace
spec so completely that it creates some kind of new unstable
XML file that can be valid as it stands but if you use cat
to send the contents to standard out, the result isn't even namespace
conformant.

David

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 11:46:00 UTC