RE: Namespaces and namespace names: a new synthesis?

John Cowan
>
> 3) A URI which identifies a namespace can be constructed by prepending
> "data:," to the namespace name.  (The namespace named "foo" has the URI
> "data:,foo".  The namespace named "http://www.w3.org/2000/xyz" has the
> URI "data:,http://www.w3.org/2000/xyz".)
>

Or alternatively, a namespace processor can be instructed to prepend
"data:," to the actual namespace string prior to processing it and then
strip the first 6 chars when returning it. How would this change the current
behavior of namespace aware XML parsers? Not at all.


This is no different than using literal comparison in actual real world
behavior ... it that the crux of a strawman argument?

Jonathan Borden

Received on Saturday, 27 May 2000 15:02:36 UTC