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> Of course that's what I was saying. As Mike Brown put it: "the strings are > syntactically either an empty string or an absolute URI reference". UNless we > also change the errata that deprecates relative URIs, in which case we really > have nothing more than a string with a special set of escaping rules disjoint > from XML's. Which sounds to me like the boiled down residue of a very bad job > overall. I just want to clarify that the VBJ I refer to is not really XMLNS 1.0. I'm still not so disparaging of what I think was a very honest effort that has proven more useful in practice than a lot of specs I can think of. It's more the intersection of this with all the incomprehensible (to me) confusion over URIs among observers. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-jclark.html Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A 1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
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