RE: Use cases

> 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?

Julian