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> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:29 PM
> To: Lars Marius Garshol
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Namespace terminology
>
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> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
>
> > I started out using "namespace name", but it turns out that
> > this is what the namespace URI is called[2].
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
> > [2] Why? It's the namespace URI, it doesn't need any more names.
>
> Because it's not technically a URI in all cases; it is a URI
> with optional fragment identifier. Which is not the same
> as a URI reference, which is either a URI or a relative URL,
> either one with optional fragment identifier.
Hmmm.
RFC2396 says:
URI-reference = [ absoluteURI | relativeURI ] [ "#" fragment ]
XML namespaces says:
An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI reference...
So why do you say that a namespace name isn't (identified by) a URI
reference?
Puzzled,
Julian
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