- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:44:46 -0400
- To: XML-uri@w3.org
At 09:36 AM 9/7/00 -0700, you wrote: >> >Resources are first class objects - you identify them using >> URIs. When >> >describing or talking about a resource, you use the URI to >> refer to that >> >resource. >> >> Do you really? What resource exactly does the URI >> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml identify? > >The resource identified by the URI "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". That's not an answer, just an astoundingly weak debating point. Sorry! Something more concrete would be appreciated, as it's pretty obvious that there are multiple conflicting interpretations. >Just as well as "New York" identifies the city identified by the name "New >York" Yes, and New York is an incorporated body - several, actually, with fixed geographic and political boundaries. There's a there there, whatever the context may be. There's no there there for http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml, which is pretty poor practice for a tool we expect people to use day in and day out. >For "elements of the common syntax", the equality operation is defined by >RFC 2396. For everything else, you use case-sensitive matching. That's not specified anywhere I've seen, except in the Namespaces in XML Rec that got us into these problems in the first place. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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