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RE: Access XML

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Access XML
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:14:26 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <r01050400-1024-66EC351D5A4C11D79EEF0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:50 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Access XML
>
>
> tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes:
> >Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >
> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >> <dataroot xmlns:od="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:officedata"
> >> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> >> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="booksByAuthor.xsd">
> >
> >Wow, not in a namespace?  And that 'od' thing, still the bogus
> >unregistered-fake-URN namespace?  Hmmmm -Tim
>
> I have to admit that I'm enjoying a Microsoft tool that produces markup
> in no explicit namespace.
>
> The URN business is silly, but heck, it's a namespace URI.  Not like
> you're supposed to _do_ anything with it, right?
> ..

Yes and no.

A namespace name is supposed to be globally unique (at least if you use it
in public documents). If you use a URI scheme without IETF registration,
there's no guarantee whatsoever that the namespace name indeed *is* globally
unique.

Julian


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