Re: Updated schema for the XML namespace?

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> > But 'cool URLs don't change', and as there are still lots of last-call
> > version W3C XML Schema documents out there which use the last-call
> > schema for schemas (at http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema.xsd) which
> > in turn references that (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd), it
> > would be bad net citizenship to change it.
> 
> 
> I see your point... Isn't it a reason why using a namespace URI to
> point a schema is not good practice (you need to change this URI when
> you change the version of schema language)?

Yes.

> A good net citizenship could be to give the list of all the schemas
> (for the different version of schema language) in a RDDL document ;=)
> ...

Indeed, and that's what we're doing now (see
e.g. http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)

ht
-- 
  Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
          W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
     2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
	    Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
		     URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/

Received on Saturday, 29 December 2001 07:07:50 UTC