- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:58:22 -0800
- To: TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > >... > Thesis 13 (and 14) seems to say that it's necessary to pick > one data format for all namespace documents. Not so; > to each his own. And if my namespace is pretty special-purpose, > what's wrong with using a special-purpose data format > to document it? There is the theory floating around that namespace documents should be machine processable in the sense that code could go there and get something useful to figure out how to process a multi-namespace document. That would require a predictable way to get machine readable information about of namespace documents. I personally feel that we should not try to put machine-readable information there until there is a model for how the machine would actually go about looking information and using it for a particular domain. For instance it certainly won't work to use the schema for SOAP and the schema for XHTML to generate a meta-schema for SOAP+XHTML. Putting a couple of RDF links in an XHTML document doesn't fix the fundamental problem that people combine namespaces in unconstrained and contradictory ways. Paul Prescod
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