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

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Rick JELLIFFE wrote:

>
> But content negotiation was not designed to get different forms of
> things that are different: for example that we can request from the
> Namespace url   application/rdf-schema+xml  and text/xml-dtd  and
> application/css
>
> This would be a quite novel use of content negotiation that should raise
> a lot of questions. If this is what Simon was getting at, then he is
> right that this is not within the Schema WGs perview to change content
> negotiation like this.
>

	Is the "thing" the namespace URI refers to a file, or is it "the schema
associated with the namespace name". If the resource refers to an abstract
schema then the content associates this abstraction with a physical document
describing the schema in a particular format, and perfectly reasonable as
part of the URI resolution/binding process.

	I wholeheartedly agree that it is healthy to have an open discussion about
this topic.

Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org