a personal conclusion.....

I know my opinion doesn't matter that much here since we don't actually
write XML software, we just use it. But, I've come to my own personal
conclusion:

Rev XML to 2.0, make it axiomatic that anything that remotely looks like a 
name or an address be an "absoluteURI" according to the 2396 ABNF. Don't make 
it required that it be resolved in order to be parsed but make it so that 
NOTHING (sans things like not being connected to the network, not having paid 
for it, etc) can make it so that the URI can't be resolved if something above 
it so desires.

Just my nework-centric opinion....

-MM

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Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 17:05:15 UTC