[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:35:30 -0400
At 12:10 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Jerome McDonough wrote:
[excellent detailed answer to details of URN resolution]
>Not a huge problem to implement, as long as we don't see too huge an
explosion
>of protocols
>for contacting resolution services. At the moment, however, THTTP and the
>Handle
>system are about the only resolution protocols I've seen in use.
Next question... do any XML parsers support URNs? Do they use these
resolution protocols?
Does a lack of support for URNs in any way affect XML conformance? I tend
to doubt it, but it just popped up in a document I was working on and made
life interesting.
In the meantime, I think we're stuck with Miles Sabin's description of what
actually happened to me:
>if it had no way of resolving an http URI to an actual
>resouce: report an error.
URNs feel a lot like FPIs to me in terms of their resolvability and lack of
infrastructure thereof, and I often wonder if they really belong mixed with
URLs. Oh well.
Simon St.Laurent
XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies
http://www.simonstl.com
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
