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Re: (Many) XML Schema Questions

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:01:15 -0800

At 05:15 PM 12/27/99 -0500, Roger Costello wrote:
>2. The namespace spec clearly indicates that there is
>no guarantee that there is anything at the URL referenced
>by a namespace.  However, with XML Schemas, it seems
>that the namespace referenced in an XML instance document
>must necessarily reference an XML Schema.  Is this a violation
>of the namespace spec

I haven't read a recent schema draft, but if it says what you say it says,
then in my opinion that would be an egregious design error.  It is of course 
not a violation of the namespace spec, but I'm beginning to think that we 
should have written into the spec an express prohibition against land-grab 
attempts on the address function of the namespace name.  The notion that a
single URL can address the One True Schema Which Will Meet All Needs is 
demonstrably, empirically, absolutely wrong.  -T.

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