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To expand on what the parent commenter was saying: namespace directives aren't meant to be accessed; they are just used as a unique identifier.
by shawnz 13y ago
To expand on what the parent commenter was saying: namespace directives aren't meant to be accessed; they are just used as a unique identifier.
- acqq 13y agoYes. I'm old enough to remember the times though when even some of the creators of the standard still thought otherwise: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613090946/http://textuality.com/tag/Issue8.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060613090946/http://textuality... "Given that namespaces have definitive material, and that such definitive material is typically available on the Web, and that namespace names may be "http:"-class URIs, it is a grievous waste of potential if it is not possible to use the namespace name in retrieving the definitive material." And in order to do all the processing and transformations popular at the time somewhere there should be the copies of the documents specified with the URI's. Bruce detected some loads from some documents stored in the DLLs, locally.