RE: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining object-orientednature of DOM

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@allette.com.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:33 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] A multi-step approach on defining 
> object-orientednature of DOM
> 
> 
> > 6. Several instances of the use of java.net.URL for 
> normalization of a 
> > namespace URI that breaks comparability.  This leads to 
> explanations 
> > that "a namespace URI is *not* a [java.net.]URL!"
> 
> Could you give some more details of this one?

What if you want a Java class that represents syntactically valid
namespace names? Until J2SE 1.4, java.net.URL was people's frequent
choice since most namespace URIs they saw were HTTP URLs.  


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