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At 3:01 PM -0800 1/19/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>I hate to sound like a broken record but
>
> namespace URI != HTTP URL.
>
True. However, RDDL works reasonably well as as long as
namespace URI == URL
That is, you can put a RDDL document at a ftp or even a mailto URL if
you care to. The problems only arise when
namespace URI == URN.
This may come down to first answering the question of how one
resolves URNs. Then we can put RDDL documents there too. :-)
>What is good about RDDL is that it solves "some" of the problem which is how
>to get markup/create/present metadata about a namespace. As other have pointed
>it is a partial solution because it doesn't (by itself) provide a solution to
>
>i) How to provide metadata for a doctype which is built from multiple
>namespaces
RDDL does not provide metadata for doctypes. It provides metadata for
namespaces. Problem i may be important in and of itself, but is out
of scope for RDDL.
>
>ii.) How to provide metadata for namespace URIs that aren't HTTP URLs.
>
Put a RDDL document at the end of whatever the URI does resolve to.
Of course, this requires first solving the problem of how to resolve
URIs that aren't URLs.
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