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Borden, Jonathan writes: > This is the *current* state of affairs. There are people who also > believe that in the future the namespace concept is to be extended > to incorporate Schema definition. That is, when a namespace URN > points to a Schema definition, the Schema may, can or will be > enforced in the same way that a DTD is enforced by a validating > parser and a <!DOCTYPE definition. Ack! No! Please don't hardcode a one-to-one relationship between schemas and namespaces. A single schema could define structures using elements and attributes from more than one namespace, and elements and attributes from a single namespace can be used and structured in many different ways. SGML people handle this problem in a fairly clumsy way by using public identifiers for indirection and then swapping entity catalogues at different stages of production. We can do better if do what a database designer does for many-to-many relationships: add separate associations between the namespace and the schema. The alternative would be to rely on HTTP content negotiation to get the kind of schema you want, and that is a pretty grim prospect (especially for people with web sites hosted by large ISPs who really aren't going to let them fiddle with the web server). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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