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james anderson writes: > david@m... wrote: > > Let's call it splits, and say that the resource that the URI > > identifies is the (intangible) namespace itself. > > nb. while it's not static, it's also not intangible. any given > ns-conformant processor must have a quite concrete model of what a > given namespace is at every point in time. (neglecting the "null" > namespace, for the moment.) since the uri "names" a namespace only > once an attribute-binding has appeared, its only meaning is exactly > that which the processor models. I was being perhaps overly literal -- I meant "intangible" in the etymological sense that transfer protocols cannot touch it. Programs have to know *about* namespaces (and may build or retrieve models of it), but they cannot retrieve a namespace itself. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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