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8/18/2002 10:12:11 AM, Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> wrote:
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>> At what point would we conclude that it was all a good but
>> unworkable idea, and just use IANA or whatever to globally
>> map short acronyms onto namespace prefixes and file suffixes?
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>I don't think that scales.
Right ... as a practical matter, I'm not suggesting official acronyms
will be used as a universal replacement for namespace declarations, just for
the ones that do have a special place in the Cosmology: W3C XML
Schema Definition Language, RELAX NG perhaps, XSLT, SoAP, etc.
As is true of HTML DTDs, much real software is just going to recognize
vocabularies and call hard-coded processors, not use the generic
schema/namespace mechanisms for many such formats. There's something
to be said for the W3C or someone anticipating the inevitable
deprecation of the namespace URIs in SOAP or whatever (e.g., does
every SOAP message to a mobile phone REALLY need to declare the
SOAP:, xsd:, and xsi: prefixes? that most use?)
(This would, of course, apply equally well to RESTful examples of
instances of a well-known schema that uses the
<beast xsi:type="xsd:int">666</beast>
construct. )
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