- From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:38:31 +0200
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:42:58AM -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > My personal opinion is still that relative URI in namespaces should > >be deprecated, this will avoid a number of problems with existing and > >upcoming specifications. I would also suggest as a guideline in the > >revision of the namespace specification that steps 6 c) 6 d) 6 e) and > >6 f) of the algorithm specified in the section > > 5.2. Resolving Relative References to Absolute Form > >of the rfc2396 should be applied to URI expected to be used as namespace > >name (i.e. before namespace name creation, not when handling them). So [...] > > I like the way you've expressed a shift of absolutization responsibility > from the processor to the author: > >(i.e. before namespace name creation, not when handling them) As we have less document authors than document consumer, as we have less Dtd designer than document authors, I don't expect namespace creation to be a common operation, at least for long-lived documents. Especially since building by reuse should get easier with Schemas. Daniel -- Daniel.Veillard@w3.org | W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes | Today's Bookmarks : Tel : +33 476 615 257 | 655, avenue de l'Europe | Linux XML libxml WWW Fax : +33 476 615 207 | 38330 Montbonnot FRANCE | Gnome rpm2html rpmfind http://www.w3.org/People/all#veillard%40w3.org | RPM badminton Kaffe
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