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Re: more QName madness

• To: paul@p... (Paul Prescod)
• Subject: Re: more QName madness
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:06:36 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson), xml-dev@l..., simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• In-reply-to: <3DD3B91F.1090607@p...> from "Paul Prescod" at Nov 14, 2002 06:54:23 AM

Paul Prescod scripsit:

> IMHO, it is not wise to dumb down XPointer-in-XML to the same level as 
> XPointer-in-hard copy just to be consistent.

I*M*HO, it is not wise to have XPointers (a fortiori, URIs) that work
in some contexts but not others.  A great virtue of URIs is their
context-independence: they mean the same things whether they appear in
XML documents or written by hand on bamboo.

-- 
Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.
Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x)
Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!
  -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun"       jcowan@r...

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