- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:07:36 -0400
- To: <xml-uri@w3.org>
Michael Mealling wrote: > I have never, ever suggested that always retrieving the resource should > be the expected behavior. ... But Mr. Connolly has (as has, if I mistake not, Mr. Berners-Lee): JR> Specifically, the new approach of putting XML Schema files at JR> locations specified by W3C namespace names should be immediately stopped JR> until there is a consensus about this. DC> Again, why not? It works, and it's useful. This "why not" was asked _after_ Rick Jelliffe's to-the-point explanation[1], and _after_ other posts, especially by David Carlisle, describing in excruciating detail the numerous problems of "why not". But ... the more fundamental question, framed even earlier by Walter Perry[2] about the very assumption of this whole namespaces/semantics business, has never been answered. Pointing out the problem of a "command economy" in 1917 likely would have elicited a similar response ... or got you labeled a Tsarist. It took 73 years to (half-heartedly) abandon that folly, and they're still sorting out the mess. /Jelks [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0335.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0189.html
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