- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:51:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@attlabs.att.com>
- cc: xml-uri@w3.org
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Larry Masinter wrote: > Proposal: Unique Base > > Relative URI references are allowed as namespace names. However, > in lieu of any other XML mechanism for establishing a base URI for > namespace names, the base to be used is to be constructed explicitly > for the containing document instance as a completely unique URI base. > The algorithm for uniqueness need not be part of the specification, > but, for example, it could be based [sic] on the URL of the namespace > processor and the date and time, identity of the document instance > being processed, etc. Let me understand this. You propose that when I process a document containing relative-URI namespace names, and when you process it, the names are to be taken as different? And further that when you process it a second time, the names are to be taken as different yet again? I recognize this as alpha-conversion, but I cannot understand what possible utility it has in the XML context. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know
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