- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:10:24 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, www-tag@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: >... > > So what do you do when you have chosen a not-on-the-web-identifier for your > XML namespace and later find out that actually you *do* want representations > for it to be on the web? Exactly. By this time next year there may well be a REC-RDDL. All of the http namespaces that the W3C has created will point to RDDL files which will give all kinds of useful information (both human readable and machine readable) for those URIs. Whereas all of those urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office URIs will never be dereferencable. It is at least possible that this will prevent those namespaces from participating in important and widely deployed discovery mechanisms in the future. The abstractness or concreteness of a thing *is not constant* and therefore should not be embedded into the things name. So that's why I do not think that "now:" is the right thing. Paul Prescod
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