- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:49:28 -0500
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 09:16 2000 05 23 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: >James Clark wrote: >> The problematic case is when you have >> two URI references that are identical when compared as strings but refer >> to different resources (because they have different base URIs). This is >> like having obj1 == obj2 but not obj1.equals(obj2). > >But can that case arise in the namespace spec itself? Comparison occurs in only >one context: verifying the uniqueness of attributes. And that comparison >necessarily occurs within a single element, thus ensuring that both elements being >compared have the same context and therefore would absolutize identically. > >If I've overlooked something, do you have an example showing how the uniqueness >test can give misleading results because of different absolutizations of the >attributes being compared? Yes, you have overlooked something. For example, see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000May/0056 paul
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