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David, Are namespaces just a modern way to handle inter-woven document type definitions? BTW, what ever happened to architectural forms and how is this related? ... > Yes, and that's the natural *second* stage of standards development: > first you allow innovation, then you figure out what to standardize. > So you start with > > {http://www.sun.com/ns/}purchase > {http://www.ibm.com/ns/}purchase > {http://www.amazon.com/ns/}purchase > > and then you bring everyone together for a while, bash heads, and hope > that you end up with > > {http://www.ecommerce-coop.org/ns/}purchase > > It's messy, but it's the only standards path that really seems to > work. At least with Namespaces we can remove 50% of the messiness > (there's no chance of confusing different party's extensions) on the > way to standards Nirvana. This sounds reasonable; where the ecommerse-coop.org acts like the "OED" previously mentioned... It'd still be nice to have a single database with everyone's namespace definitions in one place though... perhaps even a DTD to help describe them. I'm sure there are organizations doing this... are there? > I'm going to write a paper with a catchy title on this topic some day, > so that I can make US$45M like Eric Raymond just did from "The > Cathedral and the Bazaar." Good luck. Eric is a great writer, and a pretty good speaker to boot. More than that, he is definately _not_ slick... if he was the nerd population would have cast him aside. And to put icing on the cake, if you corner him for a personal chat, he is an extremely likeable fella. Not to mention his wonderful stories (regarless as to how true they are). ;) Clark 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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