Re: [xml-dev] escaping QName interlopers

From
Tim Bray <>
To
John Cowan <>
Date
2003-01-22T19:18:55Z
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Re: [xml-dev] escaping QName interlopers
John Cowan wrote:

> For RDF purposes, at least, the QName to URI mapping is done by
> concatenating the namespace name with the local name, so that if
> xmlns:xml is "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" then xml:space is
> "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacespace".  This is ugly, wherefore
> most RDF-related namespace names end in either "/" or "#".  IMHO this
> is a fine convention.

It's two radically different conventions isn't it?  The '/' approach 
seems way easier to understand to me. -Tim