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

>   You can't reuse the same identifier for something quite different.

But that's the whole point of this debate. Naming a namespace is not
giving a resource a URI.

Namespace names are essentially strings. If you want to pick a string
that noone else will pick you pick some URI of some resource. that
resource will of necessity _not_ be the namespace.

>  You can't reuse the same identifier for something quite different.

I can, and did, use a URI of some random resource as a namespace name.
The document I posted will be accepted by every namespace processor
and the namespace name will be reported as I said.

This is not my argument, I didn't design namespaces.

This is why all your arguments involving dereferencing namespace names
seem so strange to people who are actually using namespaces.
The URI used as the namespace name may identify absolutely anything at
all, most likely some resource unrelated to namespaces.

I've used namespaces probably everyday for the last 18 months with
various sorts of software, and have never once had any thoughts of
ever dereferencing the namespace name, it just isn't how namespaces
work.

David

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 14:10:39 UTC