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Re: [xml-dev] QNames ain't URIs (was QName madness)

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To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] QNames ain't URIs (was QName madness)
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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:54:39 +0000
Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>,XML DEV <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> *cough* *cough* 

:)

> N A QName is a {prefix, localname} pair not a {URI, localname} pair. 

Precisely. And this is where RDF/XML runs aground. RDF uses QNames 
as a means to tunnel URI tokens through XML syntax.

Bill de hÓra

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