> Note that with TC1 to ISO 8879 (SGML) that domain names are recognized as
> registered owner names (equivalent to URN namespace IDs), so if you already
> have a domain name, you can immediately construct FPIs that are guaranteed
> to be universally unique. They will be yours to manage as long as you own
> the domain name.
A Good Thing, but not quite enough....
> For example, the FTI
Is this an error for "FPI", or is this YAA (Yet Another Acronym)?
> "+//IDN drmacro.com//DOCUMENT Practical Hypermedia: An
> Introduction to Xlink and HyTime//EN" is a valid "registered public
> identifier" ("registered" because it uses a registered owner name,
> 'drmacro.com'). For the moment, this name should be resolved to the
> resource at the location <http://www.drmacro.com/bookrev/practhyt>
So far so good. But unfortunately, an XML namespace-name has to be
an URI, and there is as yet no way to map FPIs into URIs, as a
consequence of there being no official URNs yet.
The natural way would be "urn:fpi:+%2F%2FIDN%20drmacro.com%2F%2FDOC"
etc. etc. but that isn't official, just obvious. 1/2 :-)
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