- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:52:07 -0400
- To: <abrahams@acm.org>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com> To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net> Cc: xml-uri@w3.org <xml-uri@w3.org> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:00 AM [...] >I think there are two kinds of matching going on: matching of names to >processors, as you say, and matching of names to other names, i.e., saying >that this prefix refers to the same namespace as that prefix. The namespace >spec provides a notation that enables the first kind of matching, but doesn't >do anything to implement that matching. The second kind of matching is what >happens in XPath but not in the namespace spec, once validity has been >ensured. This notion of layering has been I think now well rejected most recently by Micahel Champion http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0575.html but also in several other messages by various authors. You can't have a difference in identity across a layer boundary. Tim BL
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