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Re: Traffic Analysis and Namespace Dereferencing

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:14:29 +0000

David Megginson <david@m...> writes:

<snip/>

> People will find ways to route around the damage.  The only question
> is whether people will blame bad design practices or XML itself.
> w3c.org has already had some pretty-long outages, but since virtually
> no one uses client-side XML, not much happened.

In passing I would point out that one reason the XML Schema design
labels _all_ URIs, whether NS URIs or schemaLocation values, as
_hints_ is so that conformant processors need not dereference _any_ of 
them.  It was precisely because of concerns such as those discussed in 
this thread that Noah Mendelsohn primus inter pares argued
successfully for this aspect of the design.

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