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

> I still don't get the distinction. Why do you need "the URI of a namespace"
> if the namespace is already named by a URI (assuming we semi-deprecate
> relative URIs)? 

You don't for namespace processing (which only uses the namespace
name) but some systems (notably rdf) require a URI for any resource
that they want to reason about, and some people claim a need to reason
about namespaces in this way.

namespaces with an absolute URI as namespace name have names that are
unique (that is no other namespace should have the same name) but
that doesn't mean that rdf can really use that URI to reason about the
namespace as it may already be reasoning about the resource which is
identified by the URI.

mailto:david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk identifies the resource which is
the mail to my home account.

John's proposal was that there should be a URI that identifies the
namespace used in the following document
<x xmlns="mailto:david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk"/>
Note that the namespace name can not function in this role, even
though it is an absolute URI, as the R it I isn't the namespace.

David

Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 04:32:01 UTC