- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:19:12 -0400
- To: holstege@mathling.com
- Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Mary Holstege writes:
> One way to make sense of the abstract concept of
> the XHTML p element is to regard it as the set of
> all possible specific XHTML p element definitions.
> A schema component path can be used to find a
> particular component (or set of components) in the
> context of a particular schema; but it can be used
> to identify any and all such potential components
> out of the context of that particular schema.
I think this begs a question: to what degree is what we're looking for
grounded in any schemas? In the case of the Schema WG's SCDs, the answer
is yes by definition. In the case of: "The p element in the XHTML
namespace.", there's a question as to whether that's in the collection of
all possible XHTML schemas, as you suggest, or whether it exists in
principle even if no schemas are ever written?
One answer is: don't worry about it. The original TAG use case was
specifically in Simple Types, not elements. Those are pretty well
grounded in schemas, and so your argument holds. For the element example
you give, I'm less sure. Shouldn't I be able to write a URI identifier
for {XHTML,p} without first writing a schema? Not sure.
Noah
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