RE: Namespaces Defined

[David Orchard <orchard@pacificspirit.com>]

Too bad the definition given is wrong in a very critical area, making the 
usual mistake of assuming a parser can/should dereference the URI given for 
the namespace.

Dave Orchard


-----Original Message-----
From:	Ronald Bourret [SMTP:rpbourret@rpbourret.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:27 PM
To:	xml-dev
Subject:	Re: Namespaces Defined

Outstanding. I think I'll refer to this from the Namespaces FAQ.
Something along the lines of:

   <p>XML namespaces have cause a lot of
   <a href="URL from below">confusion</a>,
   which this FAQ hopes to help clear up.</p>

;)

-- Ron

Leigh Dodds wrote:
>
> ...or not:
>
> http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213711,00.html
>
> Its no wonder there's confusion.
>
> L.
>
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