Re: Is a namesapce a resource? - was: duck

> To the contrary, I would say that the biggest thing holding back the
> development of a "semantic web" at the moment is the failure of
> architecture at the W3C: that failure being that people need conventions
> to allow multiple resources in different domains to be retrieved, keyed
> by the namespace.  

As I said I think in response to Tim Bray's message despite arguing
strongly for the literal approach (or more exactly arguing strongly
against the absolute approach) I would be in favour of a specification
of a file format that describes some aspects of behaviour expected
for elements (etc) in a namespace, and links to stylesheets and schema
and dtd and .... in some formal way. and then perhaps deprecating the use
of dereferencable namespace URI unless they are absolute URI pointing
at such a file. 

Note that if the W3C is going to ever do such a thing it should start
by removing the schema from the XML namespace URI.

Currently saying that dereferencing the namespace name is "not a goal"
is hardly putting it strong enough. If you know enough about the
namespace to suspect that it is worth dereferencing the namespace name
you probably know what is there already.

David

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 17:33:14 UTC