Namespace URIs must be absolute URI references; the use of reletive
references for this purpose has been deprecated. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/#iri-use
Note that the spec says "deprecated", not "forbidden". Some processors may
still tolerate relative reference syntax as namespace names... but there is
no guarantee that they will be accepted, or any agreement about whether
they will or won't be absolutized during the parsing process, which is why
the decision to deprecate them was taken.
The Semantic Web folks *may* (or may not) nail down that issue, at which
time relative namespace reference may (or may not) be introduced into XML.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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