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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)

• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the question)
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:33:13 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Joe English wrote:
> Kian-Tat Lim wrote:

>>Well, then, why is the definition of an XML namespace
>>"a collection of names, identified by a URI reference
>>[RFC2396], which are used in XML documents as element
>>types and attribute names"?
> 
> I have no idea why it's defined that way.  That sentence is
> at best meaningless, and at worst wrong and misleading.

I'd settle for just "wrong".  Some recent thinking on how to reword this 
may be found at

  http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html

I think if I ever decided to edit this thing again, I would include 
something along the lines of Amy's language, that namespace names are 
strings which follow the syntactic rules for URI references, and that 
making them dereferencable may be a good and useful practice but MUST 
not be necessary for the base use case of disambiguation. -Tim

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