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RE: URIs again and again ....

• To: "'Amelia A Lewis'" <amyzing@t...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: URIs again and again ....
• From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>
• Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:18:23 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <1027887272.20138.131.camel@marajen>
• Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CCAC
• Reply-to: <jc2astro@h...>

> The tautology "Uniform Resource Identifers uniformly identify resources"
> is ... well, tautological..................

You made my day. :-)

> But not if they're used as namespace names.

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)?

Btw, I set up a poll - since nobody else did (to my knowledge):

http://shouldnamespaceshaveuris.freepolls.com/cgi-bin/polls/001/poll_center.
htm

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