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Tim Bray wrote: > At the time we cooked this stuff up, there were some real objections to > using URIs for this purpose, and as I recall they fell into 3 categories: > > 1. Public Identifiers were built for this purpose, use them > 2. URNs were built for this purpose, use them > 3. Architectural Forms were built for this purpose, use them > > I can't remember anyone, at any stage of the process, arguing in favor > of using unique prefixes. I did several times. The reason given against it was that there are characters in URIs that are not XML NAMECHAR characters: my response was that a subset of URIs was fine. In any case, there could be some mapping between the prefix and the URI. (The idea was to turn the local name into a SYSTEM identifier.) Rick Jelliffe
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