Re: [xml-dev] Namespace URI question

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

>Forget the idea that namespace names are URIs. There's a lot of wishful
>thinking in the spec that says using URIs for namespace names is a good
>idea

The namespace spec says that namespace names are URIs.  If you use
names that aren't, you're violating the spec, even if you don't get an
error message.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-namespace
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-NSName

-- Richard