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>With all due respect to Simon St. Laurent, I believe that Tim >Berners-Lee >was correctly precise when he wrote "the document corresponding to the >namespace URI becomes >the place where the namespace-author can put *definitive* >information about the intent of the namespace." (Emphasis in >the original). Andrew, Allow me to observe that: 1. 'Can' does not make 'Must' nor 'Should'. 2. 'Intent' of a namespace is not necessarily same as 'Schema'. I believe that: 1. A namespace is empty of meaning beyond being distinguishable from other namespaces. 2. A name within a namespace is also meaningless beyond being distinguishable from other names in the namespace. 3. Meaning of a name requires a frame of reference. While a schema can be a frame of reference for the meaning of a name, a family of schemas can be used as well. I believe this is precisely what should happen with the 'family' of XHTML schemas. Everything you stated depends on the assumption that a direct relationship exists between a namespace and a schema. I believe you can state the same if there was a direct relationship between a namespace and a family of schemas. We currently do not have a formal mechanism to define a family of schemas, but if there was, we should be able to define relationships between the member schemas as well the membership requirements. One happy family afterall. Best, Don Park - mailto:donpark@d... Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.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/ 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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