Re: Can everyone be happy?

> would indicate (obviously) that a schema describing the namespace whose
> namespace prefix is "a" is to be found at
> http://www.sushi.org/squid.schema.

but surely it is up to the specification of each sort of thing that
you may want to associate to a namespace to say how that association
happens. schema already has schemaLocation.

But I think the question of what should or should not be the resource
identified by the namespace URI is I think exactly the question
Paul was thinking about when he wrote

> Do we have to decide this issue?  I was hoping not.

Actually there seems to be fairly clear consensus that nothing in
particular need be identified by the namespace name if used as a URI.
The only two people I've seen speak against this with any real
conviction are Dan Connolly and Tim Berners-Lee. However they have
rather central roles at W3C and that basically is the cause of the
current difficulty, that W3C HQ don't like their own recommendations
and don't agree with the current notions of best practices for XML and
namespace use.

David

Received on Thursday, 22 June 2000 04:40:21 UTC