- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:10:56 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Dan Connolly writes: >>to support it in the case of namespaces and schemas. I'm trying >>to figure out _why_. > I just had a minor 'ah-ha' here, combining Dan Connolly's helpful > advice "Validate at trust boundaries" and a comment Michael Kay made > in a thread over on xmlschema-dev: > > "if it's for validation, then what's the point? As a document > recipient, I want the document to be valid against a schema of my > choice, not against any old schema that the sender happens to > choose." > > I'm not saying this excuses the attitude towards URIs for namespaces, > but it provides a bit of insight into where it might be coming from. As either a document recipient, creator, publisher or anything else I want the document to be valid against a shared schema deemed useful by all parties (whether explicitly, or through the schema being "well-known"). Making schemata publicly discoverable is a step in allowing the negotiation this entails.
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