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The example was purposely simplistic to illustrate a point. You and Manos have failed to see the point which indicates that it is probably more subtle than I thought. It isn't worth going into a lengthy exposition about though so I'll just leave it at "An identifier is not a location". Feel free to disagree. -----Original Message----- From: Bill de hÃ?ra [mailto:bill.dehora@p...] Sent: Mon 8/12/2002 1:41 AM To: Dare Obasanjo; 'Manos Batsis' Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: Comparable considered necessary > -----Original Message----- > From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] > > You miss the point. An identifier is not a location. This is not completely true in the http: scheme. > I could quite easily come up with two schemas, one with a > target namespace of http://www.25hoursaday.com that describes > myself as a GA Tech alumni and http://WWW.25hoursaday.COM > which describes my CD collection. Now there is no question > that both of these URLs refer to the same location on the web > yet neither is there any question that they identify > different things. Web dereferencing is lossy; big deal. Be more discerning in your choice of schema names. > PS: Case insensitivity is a red herring. The example could > easily use URL escaping or raw IP vs. domain name. Perhaps you shouldn't be throwing herrings about then. regards, Bill de hÃ?ra .. Propylon www.propylon.com
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