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David, > From: David Orchard [mailto:dorchard@b...] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:14 PM > To: 'Jonathan Robie'; 'Julian Reschke'; 'Evan Lenz'; 'David Carlisle' > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: The use of XML syntax in XML Query > > > The terms namespace URI and namespace name are equivalent. I did some > research on this a little while ago. Turns out that there was an > effort to > unify these terms to namespace name, but it didn't really happen. > I believe > namespace name is the correct term as per xml namespace and xpath. > Personally, I prefer namespace name rather than namespace URI as > URI is the > data type. I like to refer to things by names (even namespace > names) rather > than by value. So do I. But the datatype is NOT URI, it's a URI reference. > ... > > Imagine if we had let namespaces contain relative URIs, then we'd have to They are allowed, just "deprecated" by a separate note. > change all of our terminology to namespace URI references. And then if we It *is* a URI reference. Just because the W3C later decided that relative URI references shouldn't be used doesn't make every legal namespace name a URI. For instance, the namespace name "http://greenbytes.com#reference" is perfectly ok (it's not relative), yet it's a URI reference, not a URI. Thus (as you said), I think it's wrong to talk about the "namespace URI". It may not be a URI. Regards, Julian
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