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> In Sean's defense, XML Schema does allow you to "attempt to resolve the > namespace URI to locate such a [schema] resource." It is the last of five > methods for dealing with a validating schema. [*] > > Eleven words in an official W3C document. A chink in the armor. A namespace > URI, at least under XML Schema, is more than just an identifier! Thanks for the reference. But I don't think it addresses the issue. Regardless of what some spec says should come back when you "access" a URI, neither that spec nor those putting namespaces in their document have any control of what actually _will_ come back in real life. Again, what about URNs? What about proxies? What about DNS bandits? -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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