- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:58:31 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > Hang on... I haven't see any documents that would suffer from > a revision of the namespace spec to say "expand the xmlns > attribute value to absolute form before comparing it with > other namespace names" Neither have I, but I don't think that my evidence is conclusive evidence, nor your evidence either. I frequently need to tell people who want to write code that relies on undocumented behavior: "Anything not documented to exist must be treated as if documented not to exist." I will now invert that maxim: "Anything documented to be legal must be treated as if it existed, because somewhere or other it undoubtedly does exist." -- 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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