Re: [xml-dev] Re: Why REST was Re: [xml-dev] URIs are simply names

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> 
> A namespace URI is not a HTTP URL nor is not even necessarily a web
> accessible resource. 

I said neither thing. I meant to say that it is not necessary (nor
possible) to define case-insensitive, relative-URI-aware equivalence for
for every possible URI scheme. The vast majority of namespace URIs are
HTTP you can get good bang for buck in defining equivalence rules for
HTTP URIs and leaving the rest as a pure string comparison -- as per the
status quo.

 Paul Prescod