- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:15:50 +0100 (BST)
- To: timbl@w3.org
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
The bit in the Namespace Recommendation about character-for-character comparisons was wrong because no one had then spotted that it provided inconsistencies with relative URUI references. The namespace spec explictly points out that the functional use as a URI (but not the namesace use) of namespace names in entities with different base URI will be different. So people did spot and intend this. The namespace rec is not "wrong" or inconsistent. You just don't like it, which isn't (necessarily) the same thing. So I don't think either of your alternatives are acceptable. If the w3c decides to make an incompatible change to its recommendations it cannot try to cover itself by trying to cover it up as an editorial correction. The press release will have to be honest and just say you decided to change the spec, and apologise to people whose documents that you just broke. > They do not share any semantics with the URI references which they happen > to match Or to put it another way (the way the rec puts it) namespace names are URI references but namespaces are not the resources referenced by that particular URI. > I could not live with that. That is what the W3C recommendation is and it's what all xpath and xslt and all other known namepsace processing implies. David
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