Re: SMIL 3.0 comment: Normative reference to W3C namespace policy

 Dear Philippe Le Hegaret ,

The SYMM Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last
Call Working Draft [2] of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL 3.0) published on 13 Jul 2007. Thank you for having taken the time to
review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at www-smil@w3.org if
you agree with it or not before 02 nov 2007. In case of disagreement, you
are requested to provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus
with the Working Group. If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will
be given the opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be
reviewed by the Director during the transition of this document to the
next stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.

Thanks,

For the SYMM Working Group,
Thierry Michel
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/1184341868.4242.33.camel@localhost
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/


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Your comment on 10.3.1 Elements and attributes:
> [[
> This section is normative.
> 
> For the purpose of identifying the version and the language profile
> used, SMIL host language conformant documents must satisfy the
> following
> requirements:
> [...]
> In case the SMIL host language conformant language profile has been
> issued as a W3C Recommendation, the default namespace identifier must
> satisfy the following requirements: 
>      1. The URI is constructed conformant to the requirements set
> forth
>         by the W3C [W3C-NSURI].
> ]]
> 
> It seems awkward for a W3C Recommendation to normatively enforce and
> reference the namespaces policy of W3C:
> 
> 1. the namespace policy is a moving target. Are you expected
> implementations to test the identifiers with regards to that policy?
> 
> 2. the namespace policy is already enforced any way for W3C
> Recommendation, so I'm not sure what it brings here except unnecessary
> text in the document. 
> 
> I'd rather leave it to W3C to manage their web space as they want.
> 
> Proposal: I would remove "The URI is constructed conformant to the
> requirements set forth by the W3C [W3C-NSURI]." 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/


Working Group Resolution:
We have modified definition of xmlns in section "10.3.1 Elements and
attributes" as follows:

xmlns
    The xmlns attribute declares an XML namespace, and is defined in
"Namespaces in XML" [XML-NS].


We have removed "and is defined in "Namespaces in XML" [XML-NS]" in the
above statement.



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Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:08:24 UTC