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Joe English wrote:
> Kian-Tat Lim wrote:
>>Well, then, why is the definition of an XML namespace
>>"a collection of names, identified by a URI reference
>>[RFC2396], which are used in XML documents as element
>>types and attribute names"?
>
> I have no idea why it's defined that way. That sentence is
> at best meaningless, and at worst wrong and misleading.
I'd settle for just "wrong". Some recent thinking on how to reword this
may be found at
http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html
I think if I ever decided to edit this thing again, I would include
something along the lines of Amy's language, that namespace names are
strings which follow the syntactic rules for URI references, and that
making them dereferencable may be a good and useful practice but MUST
not be necessary for the base use case of disambiguation. -Tim
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