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

• From: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:59:07 +0100
• To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
• Cc: timbl@w3.org (Tim Berners-Lee), xml-uri@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000605105556.00bb7580@pop.dial.pipex.com>

At 12:42 AM 6/3/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

>So I am conflating, for namespace purposes, the entity body with the
>name property.  That may produce more useful results *in this case*
>than conflating the namespace's name with its URI.

FWIW, I strongly disagree.

I think such conflation would lead, at best, to the collapse of any useful 
purpose for the data: URI scheme.  And at worst (depending on the precise 
definition of the conflation used), a collapse of the whole URI mechanism.

(Underlying assumption:  not allowed to define different interpretation of 
URI properties in different circumstances.)

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 09:03:36 UTC