- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 22:50:02 +0100 (BST)
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> And what do you think of the idea that led to this query: using UUID's as the only > non-deprecated form of namespace name? Compare <stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"/> <stylesheet xmlns="uuid:ae36ff938865"/> I think the first one (even with the unfortunate four digits) is rather more useful informing a human reader which vocabulary this element is from, and also has rather better chance of being correctly hand authored. Namespace names are not just some internal unique identifier that can be machine generated and machine recognised (well some may be, and for that uuid is fine, but you can't deprecate all readable uri schemes, and I'm not sure that you can deprecate the namespace names of existing recommendations unless you want to wind the entire XML clock back to 1997 and start over. David
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