> From: xml-uri-request@w3.org [mailto:xml-uri-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of > David G. Durand > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:37 PM > To: xml-uri@w3.org > Subject: RE: Use cases > > > At 4:01 PM -0400 5/17/00, Julian Reschke wrote: > >So if we are not talking of MSXML as such -- what else is to consider? > >Applications built on top of XML processors are free to treat URIs in > >namespaces any way they want. If an hypothetical MS application > treats two > >namespaces as identical, because their URIs, which are not identical > >strings, actually DO point to the same URI -- where's the issue? This is > >explicitly allowed in the namespace recommendation. > > Comparison of relative URIs by resolution with respect to a base is > explicitly _not_ allowed by the namespaces recommendation, which Right -- but this only applies to the namespace aware XML processor as such. A program *using* that XML processor (let's say ADO when using MSXML) is free to interpret the namespaceURIs any way it wants, right? JulianReceived on Thursday, 18 May 2000 11:17:03 UTC
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