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Re: namespaces discussion

  • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • To: "Richard L. Goerwitz" <richard@g...>, xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:01:56 -0700

Re: namespaces discussion
At 02:48 PM 9/10/98 -0400, Richard L. Goerwitz wrote:
>Peter Jones wrote:
>> [W]hy can't...elements themselves [have] a namespace URI which addresses
>> a DTD entity for that particular element?
>This is exactly what Tim is alluding to.  If the idea can be formally
>defined, and implemented - and incorporated into the namespace spec -
>we could distribute not only processing, but also definition, of XML
>document types.

This will never happen.  The namespace URI is just a name.  It would
be really wrong to assume you can go there and get a DTD, because:

 1. some namespaces (like HTML, MathML, a few others) are going to be
    very widely used, and it would be silly to force one poor server
    somewhere to guarantee a DTD-on-demand for them
 2. some namespaces aren't going to have DTDs or any other kind of schema
 3. some schemas aren't going to be DTDs

For all of these reasons, the namespace name has to remain just that:
a name.  

We are obviously going to need ways to find schemas associated with
namespaces.  SGML/XML have a way of doing this, the <!DOCTYPE declaration,
but it can only really point to one DTD at a time.  Presumably future
schema proposals will have ways of pointing to multiple parallel schemas.
 -Tim

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