> I came across this namespace declaration in a someone else's
> document (which I told him to change), but got stuck on the
> meaning of file:///foo.xsd. I see now that the third slash
> means "localhost", which of course I should have known but I
> got mentally blocked on file path representations.
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, and indeed a lot of people do use namespace names that look like
URIs, but the bottom line is that they are actually random character
strings and they don't mean anything.
Michael Kay
