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Andrew Layman wrote: > > Two distiinct URIs might in fact identify the same namespace, Tim Bray has been quite clear that it is his opinion that namespace URIs *do not identify namespaces* in the sense of "identify" used in the URI specification. According to him they are just strings that happen conveniently to be unique and globally managed. This difference between you on this issue is alarming. > but within the facilities of the namespaces specification they would not be > known to do so. The namespaces specification defines the *concept* of XML namespaces. Therefore if it does not have a provision for two URIs pointing to the same "namespace" then there can be no such provision without an amendment or superceding specification -- unless we accept that general Web concepts of "equality" and "URI" apply -- In which case "http://" URIs are self-evidently bogus AND illegal because the namespace that they point to is "missing." -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco [Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"] Annie: "It's so clean down here." Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." 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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