- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:54:19 -0400
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- cc: "David Carlisle" <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>, abrahams@acm.org, xml-uri@w3.org
>If indeed it is true that Dan and I are the only ones who think >that a namespace should be identified by a URI, then we would >of course bow out. The implication I fear would be that we roll all >spaces which define XML namespaces >back to Candidate Rec until a >new model can be proposed for saying what language a document >is written in. ... I'm sorry, Tim, but I believe you are overstating your case and weakening it thereby. Identifying a language only requires that the language have a recognizable identifier. It would be _NICE_ if that identifier was a URI, for the reasons you've pointed out... but not _necessary_, for the many reasons others have pointed out. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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