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

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net] 
 Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:36 PM
 To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
 Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: Why REST was Re: [xml-dev] URIs 
 are simply names

> > 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.

Thanks for the clarification. The latter part of your original post
which talked about proliferation of URI schemes on the Web (are FTP,
email and USENET really the Web?) gave me the impression that you
somehow felt that web accessibility had something to do with XML
namespace URIs.

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