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At 11:53 AM 5/19/00 -0400, David E. Cleary wrote: >The Schema WG is not advocating that schemas be pointed to by namespace >URIs. That is what the SchemaLocation attribute is for. Do not confuse the >opinions of some as the consensus of the Schema WG. I'm glad to hear that there is no consensus. >> This activity is a large part of what makes the relative URI discussion so >> ugly, because the results of that are intertwined with the >> NSURI-pointing-to-schemas issue. > >That is a red herring IMHO. The issue is that Namespace, XPath, and DOM recs >are inconsistent with their use of NS URI equivalence. There is currently no >rec stating what an application can or can't do with a namespace URI. It may be a red herring technically, but it seems to be a key driver behind the discussion - in particular regarding why relative namespace URIs might be useful. >Decide what rec needs to be changed and do it is such a way that doesn't >break currently conforming documents. Leave the packaging and dereferencing >out of it for now. I'd be happy with that, provided the other issues are (finally) taken up. >Since there is currently no specification as to what resides at the endpoint >of a NS URI, shouldn't it be up to the owner of that URI to decide what is >there? The fact is that in many real applications, schemas will not >retrieved over the web to process an instance document. They will be stored >and retrieved locally based on the NS URI. But again, this has nothing to do >with solving the problem at hand. Yes, but the W3C is no ordinary owner of a URI - they're a body defining said specs, and it's clear from discussion that this is not an arbitrary "we can do what we like" decision. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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