- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:35:51 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 01:00 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >We disagree about which we would prefer. We are in the awkward >situation that we have all arrived in a situation that the URI spec >and the Namespace space are basically in conflict, which no one >likes. We need to get out of that situation. > >[...] > >So, while I would not brand you, Tim, as anti-URI, somehow >we have to get a solution which is consistent with the URI spec. 'Consistent with the URI spec' and 'consistent with the use of URIs in Namespaces in XML' - which is strictly as names - seem to be thoroughly incompatible, at least from your viewpoint. I'd appreciate it if you could explain why you it is so critical that lower layers of processing handle the considerable amount of effort involved in treating URIs _as URIs_ rather than as strings for purposes of comparison, and why higher layers (like RDF and other models) can't be trusted with that responsibility. In short, explain your side of: SSL> I keep requesting that semantics be treated as a layer on top of syntax, SSL> while you and Dan seem to be insisting that URI semantics be driven as SSL> deeply into the syntax layer as possible. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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