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James Tauber wrote: <snip/> > They just didn't seem to have a problem with the notion that > a single URL > scheme would be used for both retrieving machine readable > information and > for an irretrievable unique name. > > I used the example of the XSLT namespace URI: > > http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0 > > The URI above currently gives a 404. It is an irretrievable > unique name. Using HTTP for URIs sounds intrinsically <em>bad</em> to me. Suppose we change that URI to something more like: http://mycompanyname.com/XSL/Transform/1.0 (Just because most companies' web space may not be as tightly administered as the W3C's...) What happens when my web administrator decides to put a default web page there, which happens to be a page about his cat Mittens? Apart from the facetiousness of this example, we have the potential of the same URI pointing to two completely different resources; I thought this was not supposed to happen with URIs. <snip/> > *However*, I asked TimBL why on earth use an http URI for > this. He and Rohit > both chimed that, some time down the track, it will the URL > for a document > describing the namespace. > > I told them that my problem with that is that is then you > have the *same* > URI being used for both the namespace itself and a document > describing the > namespace. I agree. > Both TimBL and Rohit (who invoked Roy Fielding's PhD thesis) said they > didn't see that there was any distinction that warranted > different URIs. I disagree. > Maybe I've just missed something. When TimBL, Rohit Khare and (by proxy) > Roy Fielding disagree with you on a URI matter, it is worth being nervous. > > JamesT I agree with <em>this</em> too. I'm in way over my head here... ;-) David Hunter david.hunter@m... MediaServ Information Architects http://www.MediaServ.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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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