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Re: more QName madness

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: more QName madness
• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• Date: 14 Nov 2002 10:06:38 +0000
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"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> writes:

> The reportedly soon-to-turn-into-a-pumpkin XLink Working Group has
> blessed us with yet another round of drafts for XPointer, releasing a
> trio of Proposed Recommendations. [1-3]  The foundation PR, the XPointer
> Framework[1], both opens up the prospect of other developers creating
> XPointer schemes and burdens them with extra namespace baggage that the
> W3C reserves only to itself the right to avoid.  

<snip summary="useful summary of history"/>

<snip summary="anti-W3C hyperbole"/>

The issue Simon is exercised about is user-defined XPointer scheme
names.  The XPointer Framework PR spec. [1] mandates the use of QNames
with prefixes (pf:sname) for non-W3C scheme names.

The logic of this decision is as follows:  

  1) schemes are going to be popular (Simon himself has already
     defined several);
  2) short scheme names are likely to collide;
  3) collision is an interop nightmare;
  4) scheme names therefore need to incorporate domain names in some way;
  5) we'll reuse the nsdecl/nsprefix design pattern.

Constructive discussion on where the above logic falls down and/or how
the above goals can be met in other ways will be welcome, here and/or
to www-xml-linking-comments@w....

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/
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