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No, but consider that the "systems" work well enough. The definitions don't. We wave our hands over them and then wink while a resolver is written or someone sharp implements a catalog. What is RDDL really? It's a catalog XML-Dev built so a namespace reference could be resolved a year after "reasonable minds" blessed non-resolution while "experienced minds" sighed and said, "that won't hold". They declare a minimal victory, confuse the hell out of the world, then come back a year later, wave their hands over it and say, "RDDL me this." It's voodoo engineering. Version information can be collected outside the document or inside. If it is collected inside, it should use a Public reference to name the type and as system reference to get an instance of the type. What we have now is a religion of string monism in the definitions but MIME outside. Practical but every three months, it has to be explained all over again. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Warren Hedley [mailto:w.hedley@a...] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 6:40 PM To: xml-dev@l... Cc: Norman Walsh; Bullard, Claude L (Len) Subject: Re: using namespaces to version "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > It is probably a mistake to name the process of > change inside any component participating in that > process. Fair enough, but hard to implement at the document level given current filesystems and MIME types for HTTP. Or have I missed your point completely? To be more specific, the topmost level that I can see me being able to specify the language and version for an XML document is the DOCTYPE declaration. Is this a good solution? -- Warren Hedley The Bioengineering Research Group The University of Auckland New Zealand
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