Re: Revised namespaceState-48 finding (16 Dec 2005)

/ Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> was heard to say:
| On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:07 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
|> Per my action from the 13 Dec 2005 TAG telcon, please find a revised
|> finding on the issue of namespaceState-48 at
|> 
|>   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/namespaceState-2005-12-16.html
|
| "The terms in a namespace are two-part identifiers consisting of a
| namespace name (a URI) and a local name (an NCName as defined in [XML
| Namespaces])."
|
| Is that derived from existing specs? It seems to be a new constraint;
| one that I'm not comfortable with.

Uh. From Namespace in XML 1.1[1], Section 2.1

  [Definition: An XML namespace is identified by an IRI reference;...

So the namespace is the URI and

  [Definition: An expanded name is a pair consisting of a namespace
  name and a local name. ] ... It is this
  combination of the universally managed IRI namespace with the
  vocabulary's local names that is effective in avoiding name clashes.

the terms are two-part identifiers consisting of a namespace name and
a local name. (BTW, I believe the same is true in Namespaces in XML
1.0, I chose the 1.1 version only because I believe it is generally
believed to contain clearer prose.)

| According to the 'Identify with URI' good practice,
|   http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#pr-use-uris
| they should be just URIs, like in RDF; for example,
| the terms in the RDFS namespace are
|  http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
|  http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subClassOf
|  http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subPropertOf
| etc.
|
| That's the easiest way to satisfy the QName Mapping requirement.
|  http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#qname-mapping

Concatentation is the easiest way, but there's no universally accepted
way.

| Namespaces that use tricky or unspecified mappings to URIs don't
| lend themselves to cross-language use and shouldn't be encouraged,
| let alone baked-in.

Nevertheless, they exist.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-names11-20040204/

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