- From: james anderson <james.anderson@attglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 03:04:44 +0200
- To: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Upon reading the "schema part 0 primer" (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xmlschema-0-20001024/) for the first time, I note that, as it is a primer, it might well take greater care with terminology with respect to namespaces. The first sentence of section three does take care to describe a correct relation among schemas, names, types and element declarations: "A schema can be viewed as a collection (vocabulary) of type definitions and element declarations whose names belong to a particular namespace called a target namespace." The remainder of the document, however, refers in several passages to namespaces in relation to element declarations and types in such ways as to imply that, in the context of a schema, a namespace can comprise elements and types. There is no case to be made for succinct phrasing which would justify a terminological flaw of this order. There is a tendancy in the text to identify a schema with a namespace. The passage on importing types does not, however, explain the problem sufficiently to either motivate the distinct include/import mechanisms and or to clarify the relation between a schema and a namespace. I would ask that the authors reconsider the language used to describe what are, in fact, three distinct spaces. Should my abstract description of the problem not be clear, I would be happy to cite the passages where a more careful phrasing would aid the presentation.
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