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

> Strictly speaking, no; strictly speaking, the resource identified
> by the URI ipso fact is _represented_ by the schema document.

So what on earth is it doing at a namespace URI if you believe
that implies that that URI identifies a namespace. Schema and
namespaces are not very closely related concepts.

> Let's hope the case where you get nothing is the rare exception.

I'd expect its the most common case.


> But, without more information (such as schemaLocation),
> XSV will not, nor will SIRPAC (an sort of schema validator
> for RDF http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/).

Schema validation is ____not____ names[ace processing.
No more than DTD validation is well formed XMML parsing.

> i.e. not all processors that use conventions layered on
> top of the namespace spec will be able to make sense
> of your homepage.

whoever said that they would?

> I have not, and I don't believe TimBL has either.

If you state that the resource identified by the namespace name
is the namespace and I use a namespace name which identifies
a resource which is not a namespace, it seems to me that you are
saying something is wrong somewhere.

David

Received on Thursday, 8 June 2000 12:26:10 UTC