- From: Liam Quin <liam@holoweb.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 03:08:34 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
Larry Masinter wrote: [...] > You have to define what it means for two namespaces to be "the same". > There's no obvious, unique, equivalence relationship. All of these problems stem from using a URI as a name for something instead of idenftifying the location for something. It *would* make sense to compare two documents that defined namespaces, although no-one has invented such things yet. It would also make sense to have a "metaschema" document that contained publicly-agreed-upon names of namespaces. Finally, it would make sense to abandon the idea of having a URI in there at all, and use a formally defined name, preferably one that does not start with "http:" in any examples :-) Lee -- Liam Quin - Barefoot in Toronto - liam@holoweb.net - http://www.holoweb.net/ Ankh on irc.sorcery.net http://valinor.sorcery.net/ Co-author, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley, 1999 Forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit
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