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Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: > > >Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: > >> That was ironic from you, but I'm quite convinced that it's >50% of the >> interest of RDDL, the remaining 50% being 25% to puzzle >people and make >them >> think that a namespace is something else than a pure URI, > >A namespace NAME is a URI. A namespace is not the same thing >as its name. >Are _you_ a string of characters? Can we just suppose we are all adults with a moderate education in mathematical formalisms (I graduated in mathematical engineering), and stop blocking on such "details". I don't want to spend hours backing up my mails with precise mathematical terms, unless I'm writing a math paper. --- I don't mean to offend you, but this point is quite important. I don't mean to puzzle people and this point needs to be understood in order to understand XML namespaces. There is already enough confusion going around regarding XML namespaces that I feel this is worth the clarification. Great confusion already exists regarding the distinction between a _Resource_ as defined in RFC 2396 and identified by a URI and the string of characters that is returned as a result of dereferencing the URI. I want it to be perfectly clear that I do not equate a "namespace", which is a space, with a "URI" which is a string. I consider this more than a "detail" I am blocking on, indeed: http://www.openhealth.org/talks/rddl.paper.xml The name of a namespace is a URI. A namespace is not a URI. This is not just a detail. Jonathan
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