Re: A proposed solution

> A URI space is typically defined with a set of
> properties concerning uniqueness,

It can't be reasonable to expect a parser for xml namespaces (which is
only really a minor change on XML 1.0 non validating parser,
tokenising element and attribute names differently, and a couple of
extra constraints) to suddenly know the uniqueness properties of any
URI scheme. By the above you seem to be proposing dropping the
character-for-character comparison even for absolute URIs.
I think that this is just way too big a change and will break
all existing namespace systems and change the meaning of all
documents using a namespace.


>  An application is also responsible for ensuring that
> relative identifiers are not treated as unique identifiers across
> contexts as ignorance of context can make distinct identifiers appear
> undifferentiated.

this seems to imply that a given document is tied to some application
or range of applications. As the rules about how namespace names are
processed appears to be made application specific. Perhaps this fits
with the Microsoft methodology of working with XML files, but it
doesn't fit well with my normal model of documents having an
independent life and being processed by any number of different
applications at different places by different people.

Or maybe I just didn't understand the proposed text (actually I think
this latter is true in any case)

David

Received on Thursday, 8 June 2000 17:14:35 UTC