Re: status quo

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

> By my reading, relative URIs are permitted in XML namespaces, but
> namespaces will be compared as strings - character for character - not as
> converted to absolutes.

Yes.  Moreover, a string that is not a legal relative URI,
such as "/////", is not a legal namespace name either.
 
> No, I don't expect anyone to like this proposal, but it seems worth making.

Au contraire, some people do like it.   The trouble is that a minority
hates it worse than the Devil, and will block consensus.  This is true for
*every* current position.
 
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