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Re: draft-rsalz-qname-urn

• To: Tom Bradford <tbradford@o...>
• Subject: Re: draft-rsalz-qname-urn
• From: Tom Bradford <tbradford@o...>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:51:58 -0500
• Cc: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>, xml-dev@l...
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• Organization: OpenLink Software
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On second though, maybe in this case, it doesn't really matter much.
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Tom Bradford - Virtuoso Technology Evangelist
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Tom Bradford wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but this document 
> doesn't take into account the nature of XML Schemas, and the potentially 
> for the same name to exist more than once in a Schema with a different 
> meaning depending on its context.  Granted, it's bad style to design a 
> schema in such a way, but it definitely happens.
> 
> For example:
> <MyInfo xmlns="http://blah.com">
>    <name>Tom</name>
>    <address>
>       <address1>123 Main Street</address1>
>       <city>Virginia Beach</city>
>       <state>VA</state>
>    </address>
>    <host_info>
>       <address>192.168.2.30</address>
>    </host_info>
> </MyInfo>
> 
> My point being that the element 'address' appears twice in this document 
> under the same namespace, and with two contextually different meaning, 
> which according to some schema may be perfectly legal.  How would I 
> define a URN to explicitly talk about one or the other?
> 
> -- 
> Tom Bradford - Virtuoso Technology Evangelist
> OpenLink Software: http://www.openlinksw.com/
> Personal Web Log:  http://www.tbradford.org/
> 
> 
> Rich Salz wrote:
> 
>> Some folks here may be interested in the following Internet-Draft that
>> Dave Orchard and I wrote.
>>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rsalz-qname-urn-00.txt
>>
>> Unlike most writing on URNs and URIs, this is very short. :)
>>
>>
>>     This specification defines a Uniform Resource Name namespace for XML
>> namespace-qualified names, QNames. As long as the URN is encoded in the
>> same character set as the document containing the original QName, the
>> Qname URN provides enough information to maintain the semantics, and
>> optionally the exact syntax, of the original name.
>>
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