RE: Language = Namespace. was: How namespace names might be used

Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>
> > - a namesapce is identified by a URI.  (That is, if any resource is
> > identified by URI u, and a namespace is identified by URI u, then that
> > resource *is* that namespace)
>
> To pursue the question of what you mean by that: are all URIs
> equally suitable
> for that purpose, assuming only that the URI is chosen so that one can be
> reasonably confident of its uniqueness?   If not, how would you
> distinguish the
> suitable URIs from the unsuitable ones?  There certainly does not
> seem to be
> any agreement as to what if anything should be at the resource
> identified by
> the URI, if indeed such a resource exists at all.

To pursue this even further:

1) The XSLT namespace name is an URI ref that currently points to an HTML
document "describing" the XSLT namespace,

2) According to Tim, the HTLM documentation thus *is* the namespace,

3) Given an RDF document referring to that URI, does it make statements
about a namespace, a language or an HTML document???

4) If all of them are *the same thing*, what happens if the HTML document is
replaced by an XML schema document? (I think this happened recently @ the
namespace RECs own URI).

Julian

Received on Monday, 19 June 2000 18:17:16 UTC