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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, David Megginson wrote: > MikeDacon@a... writes: > > Since some finite set of SAX features will not approach a global naming > > problem, I strongly urge not to use a URI. > > I disagree here -- if third parties want to be able to define feature > names, they need a way to avoid collision (i.e. we want to make > certain that both Oracle and Sun can define properties like > 'normalize' without blowing up the whole system). > > That said, the Java package naming scheme also provides DNS-based > uniqueness, as in 'org.xml.sax.features.validation'. It's simply a > matter of taste: > > - org.xml.sax.features.validation is more of a Java flavour. Yep... but might not feel so natural for developers working with versions of SAX translated for Perl, Python and so on. > - http://xml.org/sax/features/validation is more of an XML/Namespaces > flavour ...and RDF [1]. Giving interesting entities URIs makes them more fully a part of the Web, and means we can take advantage of URI-oriented metadata. Eg. you might search a software database for resources that were of type 'Perl Module' and that implemented the feature known as 'http://xml.org/sax/features/validation'. (There's already a Linux Packages Database[2] along similar lines...). I'm not claiming that this would be impossible using the Java naming scheme, just that a Web oriented approach might make it easier to do certain things... Dan [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax [2] http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfind/ -- Daniel.Brickley@b... Institute for Learning and Research Technology http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK. phone:+44(0)117-9288478 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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