- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:57:52 +0100
- To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Cc: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>, Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>, Michael Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Michael Kay writes:
> Well I certainly think that if a web site owner decides to move a
> frequently requested resource to a different URI, the least it
> should do is update its internal links to that resource to use the
> new URI.
Hmm. To take my favourite example, I would argue that the primary
purpose of the namespace URI for XHTML, http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml,
is to identify documents as conforming to the XHTML spec. It is
entirely reasonable to bake exactly that sequence of ASCII characters
into your software when you need to detect XHTML. And I _don't_ think
we should invalidate such software, by changing the XHTML spec. to use
https.
ht
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