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Re: URIs again and again ....

• To: mgushee@h..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: URIs again and again ....
• From: "James Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:23:20 -0400
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> > How about lobbing Mr. Burns-Lee, or TPTB, to change the XML Namespace
> > specification so that they reference "a unique string" that identifies 
>that
> > particular namespace (and not specifically a URI)?
>
>And how in God's name can we be sure we've got a unique string without
>agreeing to follow *some* published specification--whether that be URIs,
>Formal Public Identifiers a la SGML, ISBNs, UPCs, or whatever??

Sorry, I meant that the string is unique to the document and not the 
universe.  Still, probably a bad idea (thou good ideas only come from the 
bad ones).

---
Jimmy Cerra
"If the path is set in stone, use a sledgehammer"


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