- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:54:31 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@JCLARK.COM>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
James Clark wrote: > I've been quite surprised to find that this debate has actually > changed my views. I now believe the right solution is to absolutize > namespace names relative to a fixed base URI of something like > "contextdependent:/" and then perform a character-for-character > comparison (I'll call this solution "fixed base" for short). Sounds good to me. > It also opens the way to a further simplification. An element with no > namespace name can be treated as having a namespace name of > "contextdependent:/". This makes the behaviour of xmlns="" not be an > ugly special exception, but just a consequence on the normal rules on > resolving relative URIs. Unfortunately, an empty URI reference is already a special case, meaning "this very document in which the URI reference appears". So this "further simplification" won't work. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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