Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:28:11PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Mealling wrote:
> > Correct. So whether or not the resource is identical is irrelevant.
> 
> "Resource" is not synonymous with "entity body".

So why does it matter for entity bodies and not resources?

> > Its the fact that the URIs are different which determines if two
> > otherwise identical resource can really be considered the 'same'.
> 
> Not necessarily.  http://WWW.W3.ORG/1999/XSL/Transform is a distinct URI
> that names the same resource.  It still won't work as the XSLT namespace name,
> though.

Correct. XSLT cares whether the name is different, not what or even if
there happens to be a resource out there that is byte for byte equal.
I.e. all you care about is the the equality of identifier, not the resource 
or even an entity body. I.e. injectiveness is still not required...

-MM

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Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 19:43:12 UTC