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Re: Trailing slash on a namespace that is a url

• From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@k...>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:34:58 +0100

Andrew Welch wrote:

> Is it wise to leave it off, or should those namespaces have had it?

I think that better is to leave it off as namespace is shorter and more
readable.

> (They do have something at the end of them, and if you visit any of
> them in a browser, the trailing slash gets added in the address bar...
> not a big deal, but has potential for confusion)

Note that the slash is added by web server not browsers -- for example
in XHTML case the namespace document is placed in /1999/xhtml directory
on the web server which means that web server issues redirect to
/1999/xhtml/ to get directory index. Namespace document has to be placed
to /1999/ directory and named xhtml or some rewrite rules has to be
applied on the web server.

				Jirka

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