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Eric van der Vlist wrote: Jonathan Borden wrote: >> >> An XPointer can be used as either a name or an address depending on the >> form. The raw name form is a name, the child sequence form is an address and >> the full form may combine characteristics of both. e.g. >I am not contesting the fact that, generally speaking, a XPointer can be >used as a name, but the fact that I don't want to assign to my user >defined datatypes a name that depends on the location of my schema file >and thus that in this case a XPointer is not convenient. This is where RDDL and/or Entity Catalogs come in. Firstly RDDL being bound to the namespace URI, allows the schema file(s) to be located wherever. Catalogs with proper resolution software can redirect namespace URIs to local or otherwise located RDDL documents. >> <xsd:simpleType name="unsignedInt" id="unsignedInt">.. >> >> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema#unsignedInt is a perfectly good name >> (IMHO) >> >> .../xsd:simpleType[@name='unsignedInt'] is also an fine name (IMHO) >Yes I have no problem with these ones, but I consider > >file:yourSchema.xsd#myUnsignedInt > >or even > >http://example.org/yourSchema.xsd#myUnsignedInt > >as bad names since they depend on the actual physical location of the >schema file. This depends purely on your choice of a namespace URI. The issue at hand is that XML Schema types depend on QNames which of course are namespace qualified, and the crux of my argument is that a QName is shorthand for a URI. Of course if you pick a poor QName you will get an equally poor URI. The bottom line is that if you generally expect namespace URIs to resolve to something, as I do, that you ought equally expect QNames in this namespace to resolve to something -- and in particular something that is 'contained' in this namespace. Since a namespace name is a URI, logically a QName ought to be considered contained in the hierarchy of this URI. -Jonathan
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