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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: [xml-dev] Un-ask the question

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Richard Tobin wrote:
> >  "The use of relative URI references in namespace declarations is
> >   deprecated. Future W3C specifications will define no interpretation
> >   for them."
> 
> >However it fails to mention that there is at least one relative URI reference
> >that cannot be forbidden: the empty string.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're getting at here.  The empty string is used to
> undeclare the default namespace (and in 1.1, prefixes too), so it
> can't possibly be used as a namespace name.

As the erratum currently reads, it deprecates all relative URI references in
namespace declarations, not namespace names. Regardless of its special meaning
in a namespace declaration, the empty string is relative URI reference that 
should not be deprecated. I'm sure that wasn't the intent, but that's how it 
is worded.

   - Mike
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  mike j. brown                   |  xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/
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