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Re: QNames ain't URIs (was QName madness)

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: QNames ain't URIs (was QName madness)
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• Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:54:39 +0000
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> *cough* *cough* 

:)

> N A QName is a {prefix, localname} pair not a {URI, localname} pair. 

Precisely. And this is where RDF/XML runs aground. RDF uses QNames 
as a means to tunnel URI tokens through XML syntax.

Bill de hÃ?ra

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