- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:05:10 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 02:52 PM 6/15/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >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. I think some important nuances have been lost in this summary. What Mike actually said was: >I've supported the notion of "layering", i.e., that specs built on top of >XML might insist that their implementations absolutize namespace URI >references even though relative URI references are deprecated, forbidden, >literalized, or whatever in XML itself. I still agree that this might be >useful for RDF, but have become convinced that XPath/XSL must not "layer" a >different namespace URI interpretation from XML's. That's rather different from the stronger: >You can't have a difference in identity across a layer boundary. There seems a question about where such differences should be permitted rather than a desire to stamp out all such differences completely. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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