• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: escaping QName interlopers
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:36:01 -0500
• References: <r01050400-1023-B34952AA2BCD11D7AFB80003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> http://simonstl.com/ns?name=piece#vellum
>
> Moving beyond the intricacies of URI syntax, there are other problems
> with this kind of approach.  RDDL documents are presently designed to
> provide resources about vocabularies as a set of names, with schemas and
> other such niceties.  It's not clear that even my friendliest case of
> "http://simonstl.com/ns/vellum#piece" is particularly compatible with
> that approach, though perhaps RDDL could be extended that way.
>

Arghhh... I was hoping that this wouldn't be noticed. URI references with a
non-blank fragment id make really horrible namespace names -- luckily I've
never seen an actual one! I've been told that allowing this possibility was
an oversight when XML Namespaces was being developed?

Jonathan

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