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Re: [xml-dev] Namespace URI question

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To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Namespace URI question
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:55:34 -0800
Cc: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Joshua Allen wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> However, if you *use* them like URIs when comparing, you're violating
> the spec, even if you don't get an error message.

Huh?  What does that mean?

BTW, check out http://www.textuality.com/tag/uri-comp-2.html  -Tim

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