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RE: namespace URI name conventions?

• To: "DuCharme, Bob \(LNG\)" <bob.ducharme@l...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace URI name conventions?
• From: "David LeBlanc" <whisper@o...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:42:36 -0800
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <68A404048D91DB4E8DB28B90723BB29CC547B4@l...>

From all i've read and seen discussed, ns URI's aren't supposed to have any
basis in reality. Seems to me they're just a pattern to distinguish one ns
from another. If that's true, then http://nuldev.foo/my_ns is a perfectly
acceptable ns URI.

If you want a convention, pick one for yourself and go with it.

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG) [mailto:bob.ducharme@l...]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 14:53
> To: 'xml-dev'
> Subject:  namespace URI name conventions?
>
>
> Has anyone ever noticed any common patterns in namespace URIs to
> show that a
> URI does represent a namespace? For example, Simon St. Laurent
> has namespace
> URIs following the format http://www.simonstl.com/ns/foo,
> http://www.simonstl.com/ns/bar, etc., and I asked him if there was any
> precedent for the /ns/ part, and he said no.
>
> Assuming that we don't want to hang them off the root directory (e.g.
> http://www.snee.com/foo) the two obvious choices are a directory name to
> identify namespaces as Simon did or a subdomain (e.g.
> http://mynamespaces.snee.com/foo or http://ns.snee.com/foo or whatever.)
>
> Has anyone seen any conventions repeated often enough to qualify as
> conventions?
>
> thanks,
>
> Bob DuCharme          www.snee.com/bob           <bob@
> snee.com>  "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
> spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
>
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