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

>_no_ namespace URI is useful for retrieving a schema. It is such a bad
>idea the schema spec should be fixed not to suggest it.

Personally, I'd agree with that. A single namespace may be referenced in
multiple schemas, and a single schema may reference multiple namespaces. If
someone happens to know that for their particular set of documents there's
a 1:1 relationship, fine... but that's application logic, not standards
behavior.

At least the Schema spec does point out that this is just one possible
approach among many, and explicitly suggests one alternative. I'd rather
see the direct retrieval dropped from that description, but since it's
essentially illustrative (non-normative?) I haven't considered it worth
making noise about.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 09:47:21 UTC