Re: XML Schema validation and https redirects

> I'm somewhat familiar with using XML catalogs, but I know very few
> people these days who both write code and know what resolvers are for.
[…]
> I have had quite senior people tell me that namespaces are too difficult
> (as they remove them from designs).

*Shrug* People get all kinds of intuitive ideas about what’s difficult
and what isn’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those same senior
folks think there’s nothing too difficult about a Kubernetes cluster
running on Docker containers in AWS split across two regions supporting
a cluster of Node.js applications with 1,600 dependencies that are
updating a Mongo database configured to be fault tolerant.

There has been a lot of poisonous rhetoric about namespaces in some
quarters. I’ve largely given up fighting about it.

> It looks like openjdk11 is still using Xerces 2.11 from 2010 so the
> idea that people will update their XML parser (that is baked into
> their JRE) is highly implausible.

Yep. I have no idea if the cost-benefit analysis of suddenly redirecting
decades-old HTTP resources to HTTPS is a net positive or net negative.

I think the argument to leave them as HTTP because legacy applications
will break along with the implicit or explicit promise that “cool URIs
won’t change” has a lot of merit.

Luckily, it’s not my call. I’ll just do my best to help folks deal with
the consequences if it happens.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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> principles.--George Jean Nathan