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

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

"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> writes:

> At 09:03 AM 10/22/00 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> >I think it's easy to misread what Henry's saying here.  The actual 
> >"xml:" namespace URI is http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace (see
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#nsc-NSDeclared) if you deref that
> >you find a helpful human-readable document.  A couple of suggestions:
> 
> Henry Thompson et al. seem to be doing a bit more than that.  It appears
> that if you dereference the namespace URI + ".xsd", you consistently get a
> schema back.

See previous message about content selection.

<snip/>

> In addition, they've provided for unchanging URIs at date-marked versions,
> but it's not entirely clear how/if those date-marked locations will be
> maintained as the Schemas spec evolves.

What I mean by 'unchanging' is just that -- the date-space versions
will never change, staying synced with the XML Schema version which
was issued at that time.

It's the versions higher up the date tree,
e.g. http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd, which will change as
Schema changes.

ht
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