RE: requesting XML records

• From: Matthew Dovey <matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:49:12 +0100
• To: "Andy Powell" <a.powell@UKOLN.AC.UK>, "Ray Denenberg" <raydenenberg@starpower.net>
• Cc: <www-zig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <149B1E6A2147804D9651886835D1999A200805@sers004.ouls.ox.ac.uk>

> 5) URIs in the ESN should be used to uniquely name one 
> schema.  I.e. URIs
>    should not be used to name more than one schema and each 
> schema should,
>    as far as possible, only be assigned one URI.

I can't see how the latter can be achieved without some kind of
registry, apart from perhap within the context of a profile.

As regards the former, you could argue that a URI might refer to
multiple acceptable schema - e.g. Theo's DCX effectively references any
schema which uses DC terms.

Matthew

Received on Monday, 31 March 2003 02:49:14 UTC