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> > Deprecation of relative URIs in namespaces? > Could you expand on that? Certainly. After months of conversation on these topics, no real consensus was reached at all. It never is: look at the discussions we are having now. Namespace debates seem to be dead-ends for some reason, *because* after all is said and done, no action is ever taken. What we need to do is set out a list of points and come to some general agreement. Stuff like:- 1. Namespaces are unique names - i.e. URIs 2. Namespaces may, or may not be dereferenced and so on; and when we have continuity of the most important and basic details, then we can discuss the more important questions:- 1) What level of semantics could namespaces carry? 2) What level of semantics should namespaces carry? 3) What systems will find namespace dereferencing necessary 4) Is the dereferencing of namespaces a sound architectural principle (in general/for the SW) 5) What other forms of namespace to semantics mapping are there? etc. The list could be endless. Then, once we have thrashed out *those* questions, we can decide how to act upon them. Is this a good roadmap for the future of namespace discussions on XML-DEV? Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://infomesh.net/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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