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   Re: [xml-dev] Access XML

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tbray@textuality.com (Tim Bray) writes:
>> The URN business is silly, but heck, it's a namespace URI.  Not like
>> you're supposed to _do_ anything with it, right? 
>
>Er actually I'm not sure it really is a URI as in conforming to the
>appropriate RFCs - I'm not a URN expert but I really thought you were
>supposed to register your namespace before starting to grind URNs out
>to the world.  So no, I don't think this is acceptable.

Given the responses I've had, I guess I should have put a smiley on that
- I was joking.  

Given that no XML processor I've used on this has so much as giggled,
maybe there's a more serious general issue involving URIs and
namespaces, but that seems like permathread territory.

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Simon St.Laurent
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