- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:44:20 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
I'm not sure anyone is still here. However, if people are, I'd like to point you to an exchange on xml-dev between myself and Henry Thompson regarding a decision by the XML Schema Working Group to continue an ad hoc association between namespace URIs and schema locations. The W3C practice of resolving namespace locations to schemas was discussed and frequently disparaged early in this list's existence, and I'm surprised to see it continued without at least a strong acknowledgment that the practice is controversial. I would suggest that the XML Schema Working Group is the wrong forum for determining the meaning and processing of namespace URIs, and find the convention they appear to be proposing/continuing for W3C practice to be an odd contrast with the already exceptionally vague language of section 6.3 of the XML Schemas WD. The thread is available at: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200010/msg00803.html (announce) http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200010/msg00804.html http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200010/msg00805.html http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200010/msg00806.html While I wasn't especially happy with the proposal to create an XML-URI activity, I'm disappointed to see the W3C continuing to establish conventions for namespace processing without benefit of a formal - and preferably public - of those conventions in the broader context of namespaces, URIs, and XML. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jul/0025.html (proposal) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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