- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:19:32 -0400
- To: michaelm@netsol.com, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Michael Mealling wrote: > > However, it makes it impossible to distinguish between the resource which is > > the namespace and the resource which is a document or a mailbox or a telnet > > interaction. > > Then don't do that.... They have different natural properties, however. > > My approach assigns a distinct URI to every namespace by > > distinguishing between the namespace *name* (a string which happens to have > > the syntax of a URI *reference*) and the URI which identifies the namespace, > > instead of demanding that they be the same. > > By sticking "data:," in front of it? Nothing about the 'data' scheme > makes this any different... Au contraire. The "data:" scheme is the only one for which it is *known* that if two URIs are different, the resources are different too. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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