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- From: james anderson <james.anderson@mecomnet.de>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:03:22 +0200
Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, james anderson wrote:
>
> >
> > Where the namespace rec defined namespace names such that "[it] is not a
> > goal that [a namespace URI] be directly uasble for retrieval of a
> > schema," but then proceeded to bind the xml prefix to a URI in the http
> > schema space, it was asking for trouble - a retrievable resource being a
> > part of the http semantic...
>
> There's nothing telling anyone to bind to a http URI.
REC-xml-names-19990114 has a section, "Namespace Constraint: Prefix
Declared", in which it is specified that "the prefix xml is by
definition bound to the namespace name
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace". As this recommendation goes,
things don't get any more explicit than that.
> As I said in an
> earlier email, it's just a name.
In general, this is correct. A given http-url is not, however, "just a name".
> Bind to your email address if you
> want. The idea of http URL's was because it provides a simple mechanism
> for people to get unique names (even someone without their own domain name
> could use either their personal web space, or geocities or something),
> rather than using some horrid GUID scheme. The idea had nothing to do with
> resolving that name.
If this account is correct, then the notion of using http-url's was
misconceived. There are plenty of other uri schemas. Many of which
include domain names. The namespace recommendation should be careful to
either specify and to use uri's with the appropriate semantic or revise
the recommended semantic to match the uri which it specifies and uses.
>
> > please, someone,
> > a) revise spec to bind the xml prefix a URN
> > a.1) specify a URN resolution mechanism to map the URN to a schema
> >
> > or,
> > b) revise the spec to confirm, that, where an http-URL is used, the
> > intended use is to locate a schema.
>
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