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Danny Ayers
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joshua Allen [mailto:]
>Sent: 24 July 2002 22:26
>To: Danny Ayers;
>Subject: RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful
>
>
>> The bottom line is that allowing http://blah etc. syntax to be treated
>as
>> a non-deferenceable URI doesn't break anything, insisting that it
>should
>> always be dereferenceable breaks the web
>
>Of course. The web never insisted that hyperlinks be dereferencable at
>all times.
>
>On the other hand, it is exceedingly poor form to use identifiers from
>the HTTP scheme for things which you don't intend to be dereferenced
>(via HTTP synchronous GET, no less).
Hmm - and who might the arbiters of good form be? And what should I use in
my markup instead of xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ?
I more or less agree with you here on the principle, but just think if we
closed that barn door now then a lot of horses would be going without
supper. Ok, I've no problem with the use of http: being deprecated when the
protocol's not involved, but I don't think this calls for an entirely new
naming scheme or any other drastic action.
Anyhow, I propose a compromise : let's restrict the use of http:// naming to
*within* documents found by that protocol...
Cheers,
Danny.
