xml-dev - RE: Toward the self-describing web [was: Irony heaped on irony]

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

Again: could you please be a bit more precise?

Which issue should have been decided and was not?

As it was published, the namespace rec explicitly says that a namespace
aware XML processor should consider namespace URIs to be identical if and
only if (!) they are byte-wise identical. It explicitly allows any
application sitting on top of the XML processor to do whatever it wants with
the string -- this includes dereferencing the URI to retrieve something, but
it does not *require* it.

jr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@xml.org [mailto:owner-xml-dev@xml.org]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Layman
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:40 PM
> To: xml-dev@xml.org
> Subject: RE: Toward the self-describing web [was: Irony heaped on irony]
>
>
> Indeed, at the time that the namespaces specification was written, there
> were issues that should have been decided and were not.  Some of
> the people
> have gone away, but these issues have not gone away. It is to the
> credit of
> the W3C that, as an organization, it is able to outlive particular working
> groups, persist and resolve issues that in retrospect were
> addressed poorly
> or hastily.
>
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