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Re: Schema at XML namespace URI to change

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson),XML Developers List <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:08:49 -0400

At 09:03 AM 10/22/00 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
>I think it's easy to misread what Henry's saying here.  The actual 
>"xml:" namespace URI is http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace (see
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#nsc-NSDeclared) if you deref that
>you find a helpful human-readable document.  A couple of suggestions:

Henry Thompson et al. seem to be doing a bit more than that.  It appears
that if you dereference the namespace URI + ".xsd", you consistently get a
schema back.

For instance:
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
and
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.xsd

To me, that's establishing a convention about XML processing and namespace
URIs without creating a formal document describing said convention - not a
good thing.  It may just be W3C practice. I'd suggest, however, that the
'W3C' outweighs the 'just' in the previous sentence.

In addition, they've provided for unchanging URIs at date-marked versions,
but it's not entirely clear how/if those date-marked locations will be
maintained as the Schemas spec evolves.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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