- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:20:21 +0100
- To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Tim, Hmmm... I agree about what it is that a namespace is and what a namespace document is... but which is it that is identified by the URI that names the namespace? From [1]: "Namespace designers SHOULD make available human-readable material to meet the needs of those who will use the namespace vocabulary. The simplest way to achieve this is for the namespace name to be an HTTP URI which may be dereferenced to access this material. The resource identified by such a URI is called a "namespace document."" ^^^^^^^^^^ Regards, Stuart -- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20030627/#namespace-documents > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] > Sent: 11 July 2003 15:13 > To: Mark Baker > Cc: www-tag@w3.org > Subject: Re: Some comments on 27 June 2003 Web Arch WD > > > > Mark Baker wrote: > > > Since you brought up that bit, I thought I'd just add that it should > > have said "is called a 'namespace'" (or "XML namespace"), rather than > > "namespace document", per the XML Namespaces Rec. > > > > "[Definition:] An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified > > by a URI reference [RFC2396][...]" > > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/Overview.html > > No; a namespace document is not a collection of names. The term > "namespace document" is appropriate. > > -- > Cheers, Tim Bray > (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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