xml-dev - Re: XML Namespaces and XBRL schemas

[tpassin@home.com]

<rajib.k.bhattacharyya@in.pwcglobal.com> asked,
>
>
> Hello,
> I have certain doubts with regard to xml namespaces
>
> The reference to the website as is provide in a declaration like
> xmlns:test="http://www.test.org"
>
> Here its not necessart for the referred site to be a valid one. So checks
are
> performed.
> Are there provisions for future versions of xml to verify the validity of
the
> specified site.
>
 No check is necessary because the namespace does NOT designate an actual
site.  It is only a means to get a globally unique string.  There is NO
meaning attached to it, and the string does not have to be a URL.  It can be
any URI (which means that it could be almost any unique string).

Tom Passin