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RE: Registered Namespace prefixes

• To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: Registered Namespace prefixes
• From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:43:17 -0800
• Cc: mbatsis@n..., xml-dev@l...

???

I'll have to dissect this one piece by piece:

> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]
> Jeff Lowery scripsit:
> 
> > Notice that I said that a URI is optional for a registered prefix!
> 
> In fact such a registry will wish to list the registered 
> prefixes

That's a feature that is neither absolutely necessary, and even if desirable
it would have no impact on document processing. 


>  in a Web
> accessible registry of some sort,

That's an assumption.  Again, it's not necessary for document processing.

> and so the new proposal 
> amounts to the
> old one reborn: for every prefix (in context) there is a URI.

So one-to-one is the same as many-to-one?   I don't see a need for a
separate registry for each entry.

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