- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:06:28 -0400
- To: "Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 00:37 +0000, Rushforth, Peter wrote: > Liam, > > If the information in an unobtrusive namespaces file can be > retrieved/created by xslt from an xml+namespaces document, should it > not be reasonably possible that the result of processing a > namespace-free document + a unobtrusive namespace file be equivalent > to the result of an xml processor processing the equivalent xml > +namespaces document ie effectively no data model differences? Yes, that's the idea at least :) > > In any case it might be a pain to have to deal with two files instead > of one in the general case, > but where a media type has been defined, as I was trying to > illustrate with "neoxml", it could be a matter of the appropriate > unobtrusive namespaces file being fixed by the the specification of > the media type, and provided when necessary and appropriate via > content negotiation on the specification URI for > application/namespaces+xml. I'd tie it to an (XML vocabulary + application) combination probably - by far the majority of XML vocabularies just use application/xml and I don't expect that to change. Registering a new MIME media type is a lot of work. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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