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Title: RE: Namespaces and URIs (was: A good case for Namespace URIs) Yes, and once again the answer seems to be fairly simple. If you want to provide people with the convenience of being able to locate some information about the namespace, use an http: URL and put something there. If you want to make it a bit (or a lot) harder for people to access your resources, use something a little more arcane that can't be conveniently resolved without prior knowledge. I wasn't trying to do any automated processing of this namespace, just to be able to get some information about it's elements. I find it an extremely unhelpful proposal that the potential convenience of http to give hints in this issue should be discarded in the interests of pedanticism. Unfortunately, xmlns://govtalk.gov.uk/CR/core wouldn't have helped me in the slightest. Putting something at the end of http://govtalk.gov.uk/CR/core would have. Just because the namespace URI doesn't have to be directly resolvable doesn't consitute an argument that we shouldn't take advantage of the fact that it can be. Arguing that we shouldn't use http in URLs because it makes people think that something is there may be a good academic argument but it doesn't hold a lot of water with me. I would argue that if you are prepared to take the trouble to provide some kind of human-readable resource, you should use an http URI because of it's convenience. Why avoid using it when it can give you some useful functionality? However, it would be foolish to build software that relies on it - I expect to have knowledge of externally namespaced elements either built into the software (such as with the XSD namespace) or I will put the resource somewhere reliable and under my control and use an entity resolver. Even a resource using http can be resolved using catalogs (isn't it a wonderful thing when something can have two useful purposes concurrently). Of course, I'd have to find it first. John -----Original Message-----
Okay. Once again, the issue of whether a URL used as a Namespace URI should
However, as soon as the "http" scheme is mentioned, people start to assume
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