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Paul Prescod wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
>
>> The clouds billowing around the XLink/HLink rhubarb seem to have
>> obscured the fact that the TAG also issued an opinion on "Namespace
>> Documents", which in normal times would be good for approximately 8000
>> xml-dev messages. Check out
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Sep/0185.html -
>> feedback would be welcome. -Tim
>
> It sounds like a reasonable direction to me. I think that there are huge
> issues about how namespaces combine and how to combine resources
> associated with them but for single-namespace documents, RDDL is a good
> solution.
Paul, you're about the fifth smart person to fall into this trip which
means it's a nasty one and RDDLers have to be careful. There's no such
thing as a RDDL for a document. There's a RDDL for a *namespace*.
The problems of multi-namespace docs, and whether there is such a thing
as a good general best practice for how to process them, is a big ugly
problem that hasn't received enough consideration. RDDL might be a
little piece of the solution (at least there's a place to go when
information-gathering about any one of the namespaces) but there's way
more to it. At the moment I'm unconvinceed there's a useful general
solution.
And by the way this is another gold star for XML-dev, where the RDDL
ideas emerged & got worked out back in late 2000. -Tim
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