- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:46:03 -0800
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > I invite folks to use this namespace > name in their documents: > > http://www.w3.org/XML/2000/04schema-hacking/my > > If you GET that thing, you'll find > an XML Schema document which allows > a machine to distinguish a syntactic > subset of XML documents that are > consistent with my expectations. > > Why is that not OK? When I open it in Mozilla, I get a blank screen. When I open it in IE, I get a bit of HTML which I am willing to grant, for the purposes of this experiment, could be useful information about the namespace. What is the intended effect? I stand by what I said in http://www.textuality.com/tag/Issue8.html and I think that it would be helpful if you'd address some of the arguments in there. An XML Schema is highly architecturally unsound because it is (a) by default not human readable, (b) presupposes a highly controversial choice among several alternatives thus precluding them, (c) suggests that schemas are more interesting or useful than other kinds of resources, and (d) has no default way to look up other useful things that aren't XML schemas. Bah. -Tim
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