Re: [xml] parser warning: URI is not absolute

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:11:19AM +0300, Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>   while parsing the document
>
> <doc xmlns='my-ns1'/>
>
>   I get the error:
>
> test.xml:1: warning: xmlns: URI my-ns1 is not absolute
>
>   What is the reason to issue the warning? I haven't found anything
> in the "Namespaces in XML 1.1" recommendation that recommends to do so.

  Well then you have misssed a big debate which went afterward:
  - a relatively clear description of the problem can be found at
      http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/24/deviant/
  - the official W3C result
      http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa

 In a nutshell:

"the use of relative URI references in namespace declarations are deprecated"

It's still conformant to the spec, that's why it's only a warning at the
libxml2 level.

 If you really want to understand why, you can read the archives of the
xml-uri list for May-June 2000
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/

Daniel

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