Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

Tim Berners-Lee scripsit:

> It also prevents the namespace URI being usefully dereferenced,
> as dereferencing it will get only the namespace name, and never any other
> information about the namespace.

Granted, but since there is no guarantee what you might get
(an XML Schema? an RDF Schema? XLinks to various things? Human-readable
HTML? Nothing at all?), this seems less than useful.  If you want
to know things about a namespace, discover some RDF that tells
you about it.

> Are you really sugegstingthat data: is the only way out?  I guess so.

Not at all, merely that *I* don't see any other way out.  Yet.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

Received on Saturday, 3 June 2000 15:49:53 UTC