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As I've written in private to John, the worst problem is not that there is nothing at the end of the namespace URI, but that nothing can be found using Google + people brains ability to perform fuzzy searches. If a human can't find its way on the govtalk web site in hours of searching, how do you expect something to be performed automatically by a computer ? Namespace URI resolving is not the solution to a badly structured web site. One cannot expect an index to solve a structural problem in the data it indexes. Regards, Nicolas >-----Message d'origine----- >De : Andy Greener [mailto:andy@g...] >Envoye : lundi 4 mars 2002 18:34 >A : xml-dev@l... >Objet : RE: A good case for namespace URIs > > >At 4:32 pm +0100 4/3/02, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote: >>Well, I must say that I don't know govtalk at all, so for me, >the fact that >>http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CR/core is not referenced anywhere >in the Govtalk >>schema documentation is rather strange. That's the real >problem, not the >>fact that resolving the schema URI gives a 404. I don't think >this proves >>anything. > >The problem might be that the URI is actually >http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/core, >though I admit that doesn't explain the general difficulty in >finding things on >the GovTalk web site! > >The GovTalk developers, and UK govt departments in their turn, >have adopted >the govtalk URI for a consistent naming scheme for UK >government Schemas. >Thus there is .../CM/core, .../CM/envelope, >.../CM/errorresponse and a whole >bunch in .../taxation, as well as others. None of these >resolve to Schemas, >web pages or RDDL docs. > >They (/we - because I'm partly responsible for the 'taxation' >portion of this >namespace) have taken the Spec at its word and chosen not to >place anything >there to resolve (reasons on a postcard please....). I find it >as infuriating >as John sometimes, but unfortunately although Inland Revenue >are encouraged >to be consistent, I/we have no jurisdiction over that domain >so I can't do >very much about it. > >I'm not sure what the right answer is (e.g. Schema source or >RDDL) but I do >know one thing - having nothing there is the worst of all >possible worlds... >-- > >Andy Greener Mob: +44 7836 331933 >GID Ltd, Reading, UK Tel: +44 118 956 1248 >andy@g... Fax: +44 118 958 9005 > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an >initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > >The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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