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Re: URIs (was Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1)

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: URIs (was Re: WD for Namespaces 1.1)
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:46:30 -0500
• Cc: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <1018022714.13361.26.camel@l...>; from simonstl@s... on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:05:13AM -0500
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 19:11, Ronald Bourret wrote: 
> > Namespaces were (and still are) a good idea. Using URLs as example URIs
> > in the namespaces spec was a bad idea. It led people to think about
> > dereferencing namespace names which, if you think about it, is about as
> > odd as dereferencing Java package names.

What's odd about that?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/beans/package-frame.html

Pretty handy, if you ask me.

> Sure, you can come up with a
> > mechanism to do it, but why would you want to?
> 
> Perhaps Sun was wiser simply because they DIDN'T use URIs as their
> identifiers, and thereby avoided all this controversy.
> 
> Alas, we're stuck.

Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I dereference a namespace URI!

MB
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