It's Baaaacccckkkkkk!!!! Relative URIs in namespaces claw their way out of the grave?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jul/0000.html

> From: "Tim Berners-Lee" <>
>
> I think we should establish at the strong SHOULD level that
> relative URIs should/must be allowed in a syntax wherever
> absolute ones are.

> The only example I can think of where they are not
> allowed (xmlns) was shown to be a problem at our Hawaii
> tag face-face


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