- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:44:18 -0500
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 11:34 AM 2000-05-26 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: > >In other words: I think the correct solution here is that the XML >Namespace document must say that Namespaces must be identified by >what the ABNF calls "absoluteURI" and that the URIs used by XML >Namespaces must be globally unique. But then again, I'm of the camp >that thinks you eventually want to resolve these things into some >sort of document that describes the namespace. > [where "some sort of document" may be defined as a query and not a static bucket of bits...] But then it shouldn't now say that the URIs used by XML Namespaces _must_ be unique. It should say "Think twice before using one that is not reliably unique." The following compromise reflects a reasonable balance of backward and forward compatibility: a) perform syntactic processing based on literal comparison of ns-attr b) save for post-syntactic processing any context information implicated in the evaluation of xml:base; if this varies across namespaces in the document, save the relation. c) Warn on non-globally-unique ns-attr Al
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