- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:14:24 -0400
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
David Carlisle wrote: > Incidentally is there a canonical base URI for a file on my filesystem > (say /users/davidc/file.xml)? No, because a file corresponds to an entity body. There may be and often are multiple resources (file://, ftp://localhost, ftp://canonical.host.domain) sharing the same entity body. > If relative namespace URI are allowed, and namspace names are taken to > be absolute, is it clear what is the namespace of xxx in > file.xml if the content of the file is > > <xxx xmlns="abc"/> It depends on how the file is fetched by whoever is doing the interpretation. -- 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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