Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

We are talking about names for XML vocabularies. Why do names for XML vocabularies have to be distinct from names of astronomical bodies, published books, java packages, people, or web pages? The idea of one naming scheme for everything is unworkable.

Michael Kay

Saxonica

On 14 Nov 2013, at 16:03, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de> wrote:

Michael Kay wrote:
"So Java is broken because there's no international standard for package names like org.w3.dom?
How come I didn't notice?"

Do you think the comparison is appropriate? Compare the scope within which reliable identification must be achieved: Java code finding Java code; and anything finding anything. How come you didn't notice?

Hans-Jürgen

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> schrieb am 16:43 Donnerstag, 14.November 2013:

>
> No, I can't in this specific use case.  However, AFAIK there isn't a
> published, standards track grammar for your example.

So Java is broken because there's no international standard for package names like org.w3.dom?

How come I didn't notice?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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