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• Subject: Re: Namespace URI question
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:53:42 GMT
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>Forget the idea that namespace names are URIs. There's a lot of wishful
>thinking in the spec that says using URIs for namespace names is a good
>idea

The namespace spec says that namespace names are URIs.  If you use
names that aren't, you're violating the spec, even if you don't get an
error message.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-namespace
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-NSName

-- Richard

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