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Re: Namespace Usage Question

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• Subject: Re: Namespace Usage Question
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:15:34 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <20011219070524.B25198@d...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>Thanks Richard.  I am aware that relative namespace URIs 
>are deprecated; however, they are still well-formed XML 
>and conform to the namespaces spec (to be addressed 
>in XML version 1.1?).

It is likely to be addressed as an erratum to Namespaces 1.0.

You're right that the plenary ballot called them "deprecated" rather
than "illegal", but it also says that new recommendations will define
no interpretation for them.  So it really is a Very Bad Idea to use
them.

-- Richard

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