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Re: Just require URLs

  • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • To: xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:27:46 -0500

Re: Just require URLs
Jonathan Borden wrote:
> 

> Note that when the string "http://www.w3.org/xxx" is used as an XML
> namespace URI this is a URN not a URL by definition (the scheme remains
> "http").

That string is not syntactically a URN. Please see RFC 2141. It is quite
explicit:

All URNs have the following syntax (phrases enclosed in quotes are
REQUIRED):

                     <URN> ::= "urn:" <NID> ":" <NSS>

If I'm right on this issue (and what room is there for dispute) and you
are right that it cannot be interpreted as a URL in the context that we
are discussing (more subtle but still, I think right) then you must agree
with me that this is not a URI *of any sort* and thus in violation of the
namespaces specification which is both clear and consistent in this
regard.

-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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