- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@muenster.de>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:10:57 +0200
- To: "Liam Quin" <liam@holoweb.net>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
Liam Quin wrote: > keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > > [liam@holoweb.net wrote] > >> XML Namespaces use a URI as an identifier for an > >> implicit schema > > > > Sorry, but that's incorrect. Some schema solutions may attempt to use > > namespaces as their lookup hook, but that's a different matter. > Namespaces > > make no promise that they can be used directly for this > purpose; check the > > spec if you have doubts. > > I have read the specs involved, that's why I said "implicit". > Perhaps it would have been clearer if I had avoided the use > of the word "schema" though. > > My point was (and is) that there is an association between > the namesapce URI and a set of elements -- e.g. the HTML element > set, or the Dublin Core -- with their associated rules for content > and, where appropriate, behaviour. The namespace URI is the name of the namespace. A namespace is the infinite set off all legal names using the same namespace name. There is no documented association between what a namespace actually is and a language/schema/vocabulary.
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