- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:49:54 -0400
- To: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > > >with this in place, is there *any* reason (besides the 3 legacy documents > >:-) not to ban relative URI references as namespace names? > > I think that's always been the only serious objection to banning them. > > If the folks who felt they couldn't live without relative syntax (for fear > of breaking legacy documents) are willing to take this solution, > GO FOR IT. > I've lost track of whether that's still a concern or not. > Assuming that we accept the replacement of "foo" with "rel:foo", would it be acceptable to define a 'migration' path for XML namespace in the deprecation of relative URI references to define the behavior of a parser when a relative URI reference is encountered to prepend "rel:" and proceed? Thus a legacy XML document would be automatically transformed into a 'well structured'/namespace conforming XML document. Jonathan Borden
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