- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:07:52 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 10:57 PM 6/2/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >This is the difference of vocabulary I mentioned in my earlier reply. > >You could theoretically say equally well >a) namespaces are URIs, and namespace sameness is string-equality. >b) namespaces are resources, and "sameness" of namespaces is string-equality >of the corresponding URI. > > >The second is the vocabulary in use on this list. The first would confuse >everyone (at least me) very much! Actually, I think the first is the vocabulary much more widely used and promoted in every forum but this one. I'd never even contemplated the latter usage, except in a limited RDF context, until the relative namespaces issue arose. As I noted in the 'fundamental differences' thread, that may be the source of confusion, and a large issue that needs addressing by a consensus process. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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