- From: David E. Cleary <davec@progress.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:03:02 -0400
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> It's careless to make an assumption - namespaces are URIs for the > purpose of > fetching schemas - and then claim it as fact. It has never been > the intent > that applications can do a GET on the namespace URI to fetch a schema. The XML Schema specification does not prohibit using namespace URIs to retrieve schemas. That is up to the application to decide. The application decides exactly where it gets a schema from and can choose to use schemaLocation or ignore it. > Eventually, there will be a packaging specification that deals > with all the > relevent information for a document - schemas, xslt, xinclude targets, > xlinks, xlink targets, gifs, .... Then there can be a mechanism for > retrieving the related documents. But it's very much not a > namespace issue. > The W3C has done an excellent job of not coflating identity with packaging > with location. It has done a terrible job of defining identity. At the XML Plenary meeting yesterday, the XML Activity announced that a packaging WG has been killed. There currently are no plans in the W3C to do this work. David Cleary Progress Software
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