• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• To: "'xml-dev@l... '" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:00:19 +0100

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "just" five years ago David Orchard and Richard Salz proposed a URN 
> namespace to represent QNames (and expanded names). For some reason 
> (lack of a use case?) that never was finished.
> 
> In the meantime, I *do* have a use case, so I asked the original authors 
> for permission to restart work.
> 
> The new draft (01) essentially is identical to the draft from 2004, 
> except for updated references and boilerplate, and an in-document issues 
> list.
> ...

Minor correction: while looking at 
<http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-rsalz-qname-urn-01.txt> I 
realized that the document from which I started apparently already had a 
few changes from the last published draft; apologies. (One change is an 
extended prose explaining the URN scheme, the other one is a paragraph 
about, um, XML 1.1, which I already identified as something we may want 
to take out again).

Best regards, Julian

• References:
  • "The QName URN Namespace" (draft-rsalz-qname-urn-01)
    • From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>