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At 12:40 PM 6/14/99 -0400, Murray Maloney wrote: >There is nothing preventing another spec -- say XML Schema -- from >leveraging namespace identifiers and adding mechanisms to allow >resolution of associated resources, is there?. Yes. I think it would be completely inadmissable for XML schemas to try to claim ownership of the resource at the end of the namespace URI. (Note that RDF kind of does so, which is a grievous error). Here's why. A schema is an interesting external resource that you often need to aid in processing an XML resource. But it's just one of them. You also sometimes need - a stylesheet - more stylesheets (because of cascading, or because you only believe in one of the stylesheet religions) - some related java classes - some related COM objects - a DTD - a set of documents involved in an extended hyperlink group - a topic map - some graphics - some other multimedia resources - etc etc etc etc None of these are more important than all the rest, and none of them has the right to pirate the namespace URI. It is becoming painfully obvious that we need a general-purpose packaging mechanism to deliver an arbitrary number of related whatevers along with a piece of XML payload. There has been a lot of discussion about this around the W3C. It may be the case that multipart-mime provides a general solution for this problem (don't understand it well enough myself to have an opinion), or perhaps we need an XML Packaging Language to use for this purpose. -Tim 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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