- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:28:29 +0100 (BST)
- To: keshlam@us.ibm.com
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> Looking at it this way, part of our debate is over whether it makes sense > to point to something which is supposed to be uniquely recognizable by > using an offset from the address of our instance document. Which is one reason why "absolutize" is so much worse than "forbid" But that assumes already the most contentious issue > A namespace is defined by a point in URI space. That's _all_ it's > defined by. the rec does not define the namespace name to be in URI space it defines it to be a URI reference. ie > Looking at it this way, part of our debate is over whether it makes sense > to point to something which is supposed to be uniquely recognizable by > using an offset from the address of our instance document. in this analogy the namespace name isn't the address it's the offset to it. If namespace names are URI references, and ./foo is a URI reference then ./foo is a namespace name. This is not inconsistent and its the current definition. The W3C do presumaby have the power to revoke their own recommendation and change it though. David
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