RE: Language = Namespace. was: How namespace names might be used

• From: Julian Reschke <reschke@muenster.de>
• Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:11:34 +0200
• To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, <abrahams@acm.org>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
• Cc: <abrahams@acm.org>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <NCBBIPMOPKLLGKJPBINCEEKDEGAA.reschke@muenster.de>

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> - a namespace corresponds to a language.  I know that some don't want this
> model but honestly without it all work on XML should stop
> immediately and be
> restarted with a proper footing. What is XHTML? a Language! That
> is actually
> what the letter stands for. There is meaning in it.  The meaning is NOT
> carried by out of band discussion, it is carried in the XHTML
> specification.

So how do you plan to resolve the issue that there are three different DTDs
for HTML? Should they be mapped into just one XML schema?

I fear that this statement (taken together with many of Dan's earlier
remarks) confirms that there is a disconnect about how things are supposed
to work. If your goal is to have

	namespace ~ language

	namespace name ~ URI where a schema (or another language definition)
resides

then IMHO this needs to be formalized and treated as an official W3C
document (with members voting on it and so on).

Julian

Received on Monday, 19 June 2000 16:11:46 UTC