- From: sam th <sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:16:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- cc: Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
On Fri, 19 May 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > No. Namespaces are names. Unique identifiers. Nothing more, nothing
> > less. They don't need to be resolved in any way shape or form. How are you
> > going to resolve this valid namespace uri:
> >
> > xmlns:ms="mailto:matt@sergeant.org?subject=XPathScript"
>
> Red herring. No one is calling for any change to this URI, since it is
> already absolute. Indeed, no "mailto:" URI can ever be anything but
> absolute.
Sadly, this is not true. As a test, I just got mail to be delivered to an
address of the form "name". It was automatically interpreted as meaning
"name@localhost.localdomain". While this is unlikely to be useful
(esp in the current context) it does work.
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sam th
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Received on Sunday, 21 May 2000 09:07:46 UTC