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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: DTDs, W3C Schemas, RELAX NG, Schematron?
 I've no problem with that description of what is shared, what is sharable, and what is negotiable. The addressing component with its two logical parts is the only thing I think has to be accepted for the rest to work sensibly. But that isn't the same as telling everyone everywhere anytime that without a URI, they don't exist. It just means they aren't being noticed. There can be advantages to nulling out a URI. Being below the radar is one. :-) len From: W. E. Perry [mailto:wperry@f...] I may be (the last?) naive true believer, but I am at least rational enough to verify as well as trust. Yes, Virginia, there is a Web, consisting of all those who will address one another with URIs while accepting that the responses they might get were created in a different value space where different semantics prevail. The opportunity is arbitrage which, on the whole over the past seven centuries, has been the single most efficient model for wealth creation whether you want to define wealth as money or as knowledge. I take from you what you will export, stated in the terms of your locale and, of necessity, your semantics. I instantiate it, or some parts of it, anew in my locale and in the semantic terms which are my local advantage. I refactor it into components you you would likely never have imagined, precisely because my expertise includes knowing where I can ship those parts onward, to others who will instantiate them locally to their own particular advantage. If I were to begin by requiring you to have my understanding of your product, we would likely never have the first interchange. My interest in the larger mechanism is to preserve that possibility of the first blind and tentative correspondence precisely because that will furnish the basis for my next profit. The internetwork topology is the (at least potentially) worldwide framework which enables those interchanges. Developing its full potential means using its full range of possibilities, not constraining them to the small club who might be willing to agree on some limited 'value space' a priori. 
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