Re: Namespace Identifiers - URI, URN, URL?

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Michael Beddow   http://www.mbeddow.net/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <sevillar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re:  Namespace Identifiers - URI, URN, URL?


> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:12:38AM -0400, Hewko, Doug wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. This might be one of the great unsolved
mysteries, but
> > isn't it confusing since "'xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
does not
> > necessarily refer to a real URL? Just wondering why the W3 couldn't
use
> > something else that doesn't start with "http"..
> >
>
> Read the XML Namespaces Recommendation and James Clark's explanation
> of namespaces (see my other reply).  I agree, it has to be one of the
> most confusing documents the W3C has ever come up with.
>
> > Ohh...so I do not need the <?xml ... > declaration in the
stylesheets? Quick
> > side question; does having that cause any problems?
> >
>
> No.  Just be sure your document uses only UTF-8 characters if you
> don't put it, because that's the default character set defined by the
> XML Recommendation.  Any non-UTF-8 character sequences in your XML
> document (such as extended ASCII/ISO-8859-1 characters) will cause
> your XML document to become invalid, and hence unparseable by any
> conformant XML parser.  It's better to put the XML declaration in and
> explicitly state the character set you use, e.g.:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> or
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
>
> or whatever.
>
> Answer to your second question: having the XML declaration will only
> cause problems if the character set you declared there does not match
> the character set your document is actually in.  Beware.
>
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