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- From: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:59:09 -0800
Andrew,
>Don Park suggests that we could "establish a business practice requiring
all
>URI used as namespace name to
>not contain any illegal XML name characters." That rules out "/", thereby
>limiting namespaces to second-tier domain names and similar unsegmented
>names. That goes against the desire for unlimited scalability and the goal
>to allow _anyone_ to create namespace names as they need to.
I guess what I am proposing is a creation of a new URI scheme for XML
Namespace that is more friendly to namespace-ignorant applications. The URI
production rules are defined as:
uri ::= scheme : path [ ? search ]
We can use 'xmlns' as the URI scheme name, outlaw the optional search
segment, and then use Java package naming scheme for the path. Here is an
example:
<dh:foo xmlns:dh="xmlns:com.docuverse.dom.html." dh:bar="foobar"/>
which expands to:
<xmlns:com.docuverse.dom.html.foo
xmlns:com.docuverse.dom.html.bar="foobar"/>
I don't think this proposal goes against the desire and goals you mentioned.
Please remember that I am just shooting from the hip right now and have not
yet formed any opinion about whether this solution will be good or not.
Comments?
Don Park
Docuverse
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