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- From: John Evdemon <john.evdemon@xmls.com>
- To: "'xml-dev@xml.org'" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:19:35 -0400
Rather than insult the members of the Working Group, think about why they
chose to represent a Namespace URI with "http".
URLs are by definition unique. You can't have multiple instances of
http://www.w3.org. Since an URL is unique, it makes sense that they could
be used as a Namespace URI.
I think the bigger problem is that people are seeing "http" and assume that
something is being retrieved. A Namespace URI simply provides a unique value
to help avoid issues caused by duplicate element and attribute names across
disparate markups (Namespace collisions).
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