>According to Joe Kesselman
>(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=97024906624126&w=2), the
>W3C has ruled that all namespace names should be absolute.
Slight clarification:
The W3C has ruled that non-absolute namespace URI will have undefined
results. They may be treated as literal strings, they may be compared after
absolutizing them in terms of a base URI, or the application may consider
them an error and refuse to process them at all.
They reserved the right to make relative namespaces meaningful at a later
date, if and when someone comes up with an argument which will break this
three-way deadlock. But until that is resolved, attempts to use relative
URI references as namespace names will be nonportable at best, and
definitely should be avoided.
