Re: SGV-sgv, ...not svg? sure?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, James K. Lowden wrote:

> > Saying that 2 URIs with different path sections are or should be the same
> > resource is plain wrong
>
> As indicated by "Namespaces in XML" at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ to
> wit:
>
> > [Definition:] URI references which identify namespaces are considered identical when they are exactly the 
> > same
> > character-for-character. Note that URI references which are not identical in this sense may in fact be 
> > functionally
> > equivalent.

So this part says that URIs that are exactly the same are the same, and
ones that differ slightly may be the same in some cases

> > Examples include URI references which differ only in case, or which
> > are in external entities which have different effective base URIs.

And this says that if two URIs differ in case, they _may_ be the same.

This doesn't actually say that URIs that differ in case are always
identical, so libxml can't make that kind of assumption.

James.

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