Re: How could RDDL be distributed ?

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

Leigh Dodds wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@dyomedea.com]
> > Sent: 16 January 2001 11:01
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: How could RDDL be distributed ?
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Going back to our roots, SGML and XML have felt the need to separate the
> > formal identifier of the document type from the location of the DTD and
> > I think there is still this need with namespaces and that one should be
> > able to separate the location of the RDDL document from the namespace
> > that is the "name" of a vocabulary.
> 
> I agree. However won't this functionality be provided by the NAMESPACE entry
> is the xmlcat work, as noted by Paul Grosso in [1]?

I should have guessed that such an issue hadn't been left undiscused ;=)
...

However, probably still missing something, I wonder of xmlcat documents
are attached to instance documents.

Also wouldn't we be multiplying the layers by using both and wouldn't it
be better to integrate xmlcat features or vocabulary within RDDL for
RDDL own purposes ?

Also, I think it would be nice to get the 3 options to define the
association between the instance document and the RDDL (through the
tools, through the instance documents and through the RDDL).

Thanks for the link !

Eric

> As Paul notes this would allow a local URI (resolving to an RDDL document)
> to be
> used instead of the NS-URI itself.
> 
> [1]. http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200101/msg00244.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> L.
> 
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