Re: [xml-dev] Global or shared namespace?

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

Hi David,

David Brownell wrote:


> 
>     - It's a namespace URI that actually points
>       to something -- completely unexpected!!


Unexpected maybe, but not an exception :=) .

The W3C has created pages on most (if not all) the URIs used as 
namespaces. Try for instance:

http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink/

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform


These pages contain a short description and, sometimes, a link to the 
corresponding specification.

Some of them point to RDDL documents, for instance:

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

Content negociation is performed for these URIs and, depending on how 
your browser is configured, you can also receive other documents such as 
a W3C XML Schema.

This makes my suggestion to give a URI for the "no namespace" stronger 
:) ...

Eric
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