Martin Duerst wrote:
At 07:04 05/10/03, Walter Underwood wrote:
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>--On October 2, 2005 9:35:28 AM +0200 Anne van Kesteren
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Having a file and folder of the same name is not technically possible.
>(Although
>> you could emulate the effect of course with some mod_rewrite.)
>
>Namespaces aren't files, only names.
Yes. But the W3C insists on having an actual file there, just
for documentation at least, or ideally for some machine-readable
information (schema,...).
>Also, some filesystem implementations do allow a file and a folder
>with the same name.
Yes. The W3C server could certainly be tweaked to allow that,
but it would be easier not to have to do that.
Hey wake up!
If http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom maps to a file system folder, any web
server that I know of will send a redirect to
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom/ and "display" the directory index file
(index.html, default.htm, etc.)
Moreover, there is precedence at w3.org to use URI without a trailing
"/" as "public identifiers" (cool URIs?) when they actually are "folders":
See the "last version" links to CSS2 and DOM Level 2 recommendations:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Views
…
I really don't understand why you're discussing this sort of thing… We
could really have an http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom/extensions namespace.
--
Thomas Broyer
