xml-dev - Re: Schema at XML namespace URI to change

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

"Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net> writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> > This is part of a retrospective cleanup of location of schema
> > documents for well-known namespaces, trying to apply the following
> > policy:
> >
> >   There will always be an up-to-date schema document at the namespace
> >   URI, which will change when XML Schema changes
> >   (e.g. http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace);
> >
> 
>  Could you clarify this. The above URI references an HTML document with a
> short description of the namespace, not an XML Schema document.

Content negotiation!  There's actually literally nothing at the
namespace URI, and the server is set up to return whats at
..../namespace.html if the http GET is for text/html, and to return
the ..../namespace.xsd if it's text/xml.

> Is the intention to replace such descriptions with XML Schemata?
> Would this also hold true for RDF namespaces whose developers might
> wish to reference RDF Schemata?

See above, not replace, but supplement.  The same option is open wrt
RDF, yes.

ht
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