Re: [xsl] random url for namespace to avoid uncontrollable dependencies

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 August 2011 14:47, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/08/2011 14:31, Dirk wrote:
>>>
>>> No problems at all, use whatever namespace you like.  You could just
>>> use xmlns:cms="cms", it really doesn't matter.  Just don't put dates
>>> or version numbers in it, or anything that might give you reason to
>>> want to change it down the line.
>
> Note however that due to a (rather perverse) decision of the w3c, such
> namespaces (which are technically relative URI) are deprecated.
>
> http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa
>
> following that decision later editions of the xml namespace spec have
> declared relative url namespaces deprecated and referenced that page.

I'm not sure what that is saying - the namespace name is still
'../name'... where does any resolution to an absolute uri take place?


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