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On Fri, 19 May 2000, james anderson wrote: > > As I said in an > > earlier email, it's just a name. > > In general, this is correct. A given http-url is not, however, "just a name". No, but what is at the end of a URL when you access it is undefined - hell it might not even be static. The namespace spec should not constrain what's meant to be at the end of a URL, not even for the defined usage of "identifying a namespace". > > Bind to your email address if you > > want. The idea of http URL's was because it provides a simple mechanism > > for people to get unique names (even someone without their own domain name > > could use either their personal web space, or geocities or something), > > rather than using some horrid GUID scheme. The idea had nothing to do with > > resolving that name. > > If this account is correct, then the notion of using http-url's was > misconceived. There are plenty of other uri schemas. Many of which > include domain names. The namespace recommendation should be careful to > either specify and to use uri's with the appropriate semantic or revise > the recommended semantic to match the uri which it specifies and uses. Please go back and read the ancient archives on this. Way back when the namespace spec came out - which had to come out fast because people needed the functionality, we started talking about alternative urn schemas. I don't know what happened to that discussion as I lost track of XML-Dev in moving jobs. My point though is just this: Nothing should define what goes at the end of a URI. If you want to put a schema there, fine. But please don't anybody start writing parsers that try and see if there's a schema at the end of the URI - that way lies misery for the whole internet. -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org http://xml.sergeant.org *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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