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

• From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
• Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:29:32 +0100
• To: abrahams@acm.org
• Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000607102732.00a825e0@pop.dial.pipex.com>

At 04:42 PM 6/6/00 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
>What the namespace spec now says is: "It is not a goal that [the namespace
>name] be directly usable for retrieval of a schema (if any exists)."   That
>seems to say the opposite: that the namespace URI is not expected to be useful
>in retrieving a schema, even though (this is the implication) some people 
>might
>expect it to do so.

I read that slightly differently:  to me, the key word is *directly*, 
suggesting to me that indirect retrieval (e.g. by URN) may still be a 
reasonable expectation.

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 06:47:26 UTC