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Chris Lilley wrote: > > Paul Prescod wrote: > > > > Chris Lilley wrote: > > > > > > > It strikes me as clearly poor design to use an HTTP url for something not > > > > retrievable by the HTTP protocol. > > > > > > It would be, but no such examples were given. > > > > The XSL namespace is: > > > > http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0 > > > > Is someone going to put something retrievable there? > > Why should something retrievable be put there? It functions just fine as > a unique name without having to retrieve anything. That's all very well and good but nameespace URIs are URIs *first* and (by definition) and whatever the namespace spec says they are ("globally unique name prefixes") second. According to the transcript above, you and I agree that HTTP URIs should not be used unless there is something retrievable by the HTTP protocol. That strikes me as common sense but can also be backed up by the relevant RFCs. (I'd rather not start the conversation again here...) URI must have a resource (even the null set) in order to be a URI. The 404 message is issued when there is no resource by a given name. Therefore the W3C's web server contradicts the recommendations of the (e.g.) XSLT specification. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Silence," wrote Melville, "is the only Voice of God." The assertion, like its subject, cuts both ways, negating and affirming, implying both absence and presence, offering us a choice; it's a line that the Society of American Atheists could put on its letterhead and the Society of Friends could silently endorse while waiting to be moved by the spirit to speak. - Listening for Silence by Mark Slouka, Apr. 1999, Harper's 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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