Re: Toward the self-describing web [was: Irony heaped on irony]

Dan Connolly wrote

> I'm not sure what you mean by "allow you to generate an HTTP uri";
> XT allows you to *use* a *particular* HTTP URI to indicate
> that you want to call out to java. It doesn't have a mechanism
> where you choose a namespace URI and it associates java code
> with your choice of namespace URIs somehow.
> 
> (see http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html for documentation
> of the http://www.jclark.com/xt/java namespace, btw)
> 

In an attempt to be less argumentative I replied earlier today
essentially retracting my earlier claim, but you lead me astray:-)
I was right the first time:

There is not a fixed extension URI, you just make them up as you go along: 

   A call to a function ns:foo where ns is bound to a namespace of the
   form                  
   http://www.jclark.com/xt/java/className is treated as a call of the
   static method foo of
   the class with fully-qualified name className.


In otherwords _anyone_ gets to chose the className from some class on
their java classpath and refer to that class via a namespace URI of the
above form. oracle xalan and saxon have similar namespace usage.

David

Received on Sunday, 21 May 2000 13:59:20 UTC