- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Feb 2001 08:27:13 +0000
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>, "Dave Beckett" <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>, "David Megginson" <david@megginson.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
"Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com> writes: > > Of course the problem with using this URI for XML Schema is > > that the URI XML Schema specifies is: > > http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema . > > But aren't http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema and > http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema# completely equivalent when it comes to > using them for XML Schema processing? Of course not. The namespace URI for the current version of XML Schema is http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema, and that's the _only_ namespace URI it has. Adding a # on the end produces a namespace URI which does not compare equal character for character, so is in principle, for purposes of namespace recognition, as different as 'mailto:/dev/null'. > *Rule*: A namespace is any URI allowable in the XML Names specification. Indeed, the one with a # on the end is a perfectly good namespace URI, it's just not _the_ namespace URI for XML Schema, and documents with that as their namespace will _not_ be recognised _by XML Schema-aware processors_ as defined in the XML Schema spec. as being XML Schemas. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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