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   Re: [xml-dev] more QName madness

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Paul Prescod scripsit:

> IMHO, it is not wise to dumb down XPointer-in-XML to the same level as 
> XPointer-in-hard copy just to be consistent.

I*M*HO, it is not wise to have XPointers (a fortiori, URIs) that work
in some contexts but not others.  A great virtue of URIs is their
context-independence: they mean the same things whether they appear in
XML documents or written by hand on bamboo.

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