I would have thought that any valid file name can also be considered an URI
??  In fact URI is defined as string of chars used to identify an abstract
or physical resource.  After testing it a bit more (just to be sure), I did
report it as a bug. 

Thank you,
-Farid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:43 AM
> To: Farid.Mahini@L...
> Subject: RE: Namespace error
> 
> 
> > Thank you Michael.  Changed it to 'vistaTec' and it worked.  
> > One qustion
> > though:  Isn't namespace only used to qualify the names? If 
> > so,  why does it
> > matter if it's URI or some string?
> 
> It was just a guess, and I'm a little surprised that it 
> turned out to be
> right. Most products allow any string to be used as a 
> namespace URI. The
> specs are very ambiguous on this, but I would expect a 
> product that wants
> namespace URIs to be valid URIs to complain if they aren't, 
> rather than
> simply failing to match them. I would raise a bug...
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> 


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