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Starting out the New Year with duelling namespace resource specs? And one of them in full W3C dress with German examples. Sign of the new year? Anyways, my preferences lie somewhere between Jonathan's and Tim's ideas (though I will not be putting up my own proposal). First of all, I do prefer using <link> rather than <div>. I hear Tim saying > 2. If you overload <link>, you get into difficulties with > href= vs xlink:href=... - due to parts of the design of > namespaces and xlink that make several people uncomfortable, > but the problem is there. I must have missed a flame-war somewhere, but I'm guessing this is the global attribute vs. per-element-type partition confusion. Well in this area I personally don't have a problem with REC-xml-names so it's hard for me to judge the damage. Strictly from the point of "least surprise" wrt the element used, however, I'd vote <link>. I'm not sure how I feel about the ability to use nested references as demostrated by Tim. I do think Tim makes more appropriate use of xlink:role and xlink:arcrole. That's one thing that really bugged me about Jonathan's proposal. I don't think the idea of pointing to the schema of a reference is all that important. The reference doc will itself inticate its schema, possibly through cascaded Namespace Resource descriptors. As for naming, all I can say about "XNRL" is "bleeeech". I'm pretty tired of X???L in general. I wish we'd use more evocative and even creative names. After all, we're supposed to be semantic wizards, n'est ce pas? I prefer "Namespace Catalogues" regardless of any association with FPI catalogues. Maybe "Namespace Descriptors", "Namespace Abstracts", "Namespace Resource Guide", even "Namespace Brochures" (interest-free 'till 2003). My literary side suggests "Namespace Precis". K. So I'm getting silly. -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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