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   RE: [xml-dev] quarantining namespaces

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The hubris in that is in suggesting that a separate e-mail list 
will succeed in putting to rest issues that have not ever rested 
in the voluminous threads here and on other lists.  Just how is 
that supposed to work:  a self-selected group sits down and by 
dint of focus comes up with an answer that will be acceptable 
by all?  Not likely.

The rot is in the URI.  It has to be solved there.  The 
solutions are obvious.  

1.  Insist that the URI is always dereferenceable, meaning, 
by near equivalent syntax (case being the dull exception), 
one can always attempt the dereferencing operation.  The 
result will be success or failure.

2.  Understand that the URI as Namespace string may in one 
specification indicate a syntax hack for disambiguating 
aggregate names, but that this overloading by a secondary 
specification increases in practice the unreliability of 
the primary role of resource identification and retrieval.

That is all.  Specifications that overload the syntactical 
devices of other specifications will produce ambiguity and 
increase unreliability.  Deal with it.  How?

Put something at the end of the URI or let the customer 
eat cake.  Decide which is best for your business.  

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@expway.fr]

 > Might it make sense to move namespace discussions to a forum of their
 > own?

I fully agree, it's well past time we tried to put that to rest once and
for all.




 

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