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Tim Bray writes: > At 01:54 PM 9/6/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote: > Hmm, I observe that the namespace name hardwired to the prefix > "xml:" is > > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace > > (amusing, since the namespace spec is dated January 1999). Anyhow, > I seem to recall that Dan Connolly cooked this up on behalf of the > W3C and there was a real good reason which I unfortunately forget > for having a date in there. Dan's suggestion is that if someone else ends up owning the w3.org domain some day, they're less likely to create their own, identical Namespace URI if the URI contains a stale date. 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/ 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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