- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:42:01 +0100 (BST)
- To: timbl@w3.org
- CC: XML-uri@w3.org
> That is not true. Were it true, then I suppose we could live with > your suggestion. But I want to say that http://wwww.w3.org/2000/ns65 is > cool, or owned by W3C, or created in 2000, or whatever, and I > want to be able to do that to any resource, including namepsaces. > I want to be able to leverage all the apparatus of the web > to find out about a namespace, and I while a namespace name is a URI > I can do it immediately, just by queying for the URI. No, you can't. You always have to know that you are looking for namespace information. If you just query the URI of a namespace (either directly dereferencing it or looking for metadata about it) you get returned ususally "nothing" or "an html page" or just about any other kind of resource retrievable on the web. If you (or your processor) can read the english text on the web page you may find that it describes some features of some aspects of processing the namespace but this seems to be a far cry from saying that the resource _is_ the namespace. And that's the best case, for most namespace names you get something unrelated to the namespace if you query the URI. David
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