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Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 May 2003
At 22:19 2003 05 20 +0200, Tobias Reif wrote: >Paul Grosso wrote: > >> The term is officially defined at/by >> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-NSName > >Thanks, so we agree about what is to be provided as value of the new attribute named "namespace"; Yes, I believe so, we're just disagreeing on terminology. > typically, it's the namespace URI, eg a URL. To be pedantic, no. There is no such thing as "*the* namespace URI" as far as the Namespace spec is concerned (though specs like the DOM and XSL use such erroneous terminology). The thing we're talking about is "*the* namespace name". A namespace name is (per its definition) a URI reference, an example of which would be a URL. (Per an erratum [1] to the Namespace spec, relative URI references are deprecated, so in practice, a namespace name should be an absolute URI reference.) But as I said, all this is pedantic--I'm pretty sure we're really talking about the same thing. Of course, this whole thread is about terminology, after all. paul [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-names-19990114-errata#NE04
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