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Re: escaping QName interlopers

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: escaping QName interlopers
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:18:55 -0800
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

> For RDF purposes, at least, the QName to URI mapping is done by
> concatenating the namespace name with the local name, so that if
> xmlns:xml is "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" then xml:space is
> "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacespace".  This is ugly, wherefore
> most RDF-related namespace names end in either "/" or "#".  IMHO this
> is a fine convention.

It's two radically different conventions isn't it?  The '/' approach 
seems way easier to understand to me. -Tim

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