• From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:22:22 -0700

Eric Bohlman wrote, "[A] namespace
is identified by the *text* of the URI *itself*, not by the content of the
resource (if it exists at all) pointed to by the URI."

He is right.  You will understand namespaces much better if you give up
thinking that the URI identifies any web-retrievable resource.  It is just a
universally-unique identification system.  

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