- From: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:34:04 -0500
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 02:19 PM 5/16/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> > Relative URIs are a fine thing when you want them to resolve differently as
> > you move a group of files from place to place. But namespace names do not
> > want that behavior; the expanded name {nsuri}localname wants to stay
> > _stable_ as the document is relocated.
>
>Well, then don't use them if that's the property you want *your* names to
>have.
John, when would you *not* want expanded names to stay stable as the
document is relocated? Are there convincing use cases where
location-dependent names are what you want?
Jonathan
Received on Tuesday, 16 May 2000 14:32:04 UTC