Re: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pace with James Clark

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

Mike Champion wrote:

 > The W3C might say, someday, as a matter of overall Web policy,
 > that namespace URIs should be dereferenceable.  XML doesn't say that,
 > the namespace rec doesn't say that, and James Clark isn't saying that.

Exactly correct.  It turns out that when you put some explanatory
material where a namespace name points, that seems to be useful.  I
think the w3c could recommend this as good practice without changing the
semantics of the web.  -Tim