[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #3628: Namespace URLs in export files are broken links

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#3628: Namespace URLs in export files are broken links
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 Reporter:  jblz     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:
Component:  General  |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:           |
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Changes (by Otto42):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid


Comment:

 Those are XML namespaces, not URLs or links.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_namespace

 Just because a thing starts with 'http' doesn't mean that it needs to be a
 valid location. It is an identifier. It resides in a domain that we have
 control over (wordpress.org) so that we know that it will be consistent
 and will not change.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_namespace#Namespace_names


 > A namespace name is a uniform resource identifier (URI). Typically, the
 URI chosen for the namespace of a given XML vocabulary describes a
 resource under the control of the author or organization defining the
 vocabulary, such as a URL for the author's Web server. However, the
 namespace specification does not require nor suggest that the namespace
 URI be used to retrieve information; it is simply treated by an XML parser
 as a string. For example, the document at http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
 itself does not contain any code. It simply describes the XHTML namespace
 to human readers. Using a URI (such as "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") to
 identify a namespace, rather than a simple string (such as "xhtml"),
 reduces the probability of different namespaces using duplicate
 identifiers.

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