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Jeff Greif scripsit:
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> If the URI is meant to be dereferenced, the 'rule' is given force by means
> of the inability of anyone but microsoft.com to control the representation
> that will be returned. If the URI is not supposed to be dereferenced, then
> the rule is just a convention, right? Or am I missing something?
It is a convention, but it is the convention that underpins the choice of
URIs as namespace names. The Java package name convention uses the same
concept: don't allocate a package that you don't (by the rules) control.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit
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