• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: DNS based URIs that don't imply access method
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:35:39 -0800
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> For a brief description of the kinds of problems I've heard in the field 
> (at conferences and an ACM tutorial), see:
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg00965.html

OK, I've read that.  The first problem has nothing to do with URI-ness. 
  The second and third are consequences (I gather) of dereferencing a 
namespace name at run-time.  Here our experiences differ; I've never 
seen a programmer try to do that, with the exceptions of RDF-heads, who 
know what they're going to get.

Any other data points out there - are people (outside of RDF) building 
systems that depend on runtime namespace name dereference?  Just because 
I don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening. -Tim

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