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RE: How could RDDL be distributed ?

• From: Leigh Dodds <ldodds@i...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:50:41 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...]
> Sent: 16 January 2001 11:01
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: How could RDDL be distributed ?
>

[...]

> Going back to our roots, SGML and XML have felt the need to separate the
> formal identifier of the document type from the location of the DTD and
> I think there is still this need with namespaces and that one should be
> able to separate the location of the RDDL document from the namespace
> that is the "name" of a vocabulary.

I agree. However won't this functionality be provided by the NAMESPACE entry
is the xmlcat work, as noted by Paul Grosso in [1]?

As Paul notes this would allow a local URI (resolving to an RDDL document)
to be
used instead of the NS-URI itself.

[1]. http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200101/msg00244.html

Cheers,

L.


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