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RE: RDDL: proposal to document the target namespace of a RDDL

• To: "'Eric van der Vlist'" <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: RDDL: proposal to document the target namespace of a RDDL document.
• From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:20:31 -0800

> From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...]

<snip/>

> Just to follow-up on a previous thread (see below), I'd like 
> to propose 
> adding a new purpose (http://www.rddl.org/purposes#target) for RDDL.
> 
> The target of a RDDL document could then be documented (non normative 
> example) as:
> 
> <rddl:resource id="target"
>        xlink:type="simple"
>        xlink:arcrole="http://www.rddl.org/purposes#target"
>        xlink:role="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>        xlink:title="target namespace"
>        xlink:href="http://example.org/my-namespace">
>    <div class="resource">
>       <h3>Target namespace</h3>
>         <p>This RDDL document is describing the namespace
>            <code>http://example.org/my-namespace</code>.</p>
>    </div>
> </rddl:resource>

I personally don't think that this by itself adds much value. RDDL, in its
current form, relies upon the derefencing of a namespace URI to get the RDDL
document, so an application always knows in advance what the "target
namespace" is. Having a simple link in the document for this is redundant
and adds no value.

On the other hand, if greater flexibility is desired such that the document
can associate resources with a namespace URI without having to be at the end
of the namespace URI, then adapting RDDL to support an extended link format
seems a more appropriate approach, and one that affords greater flexibility
than using a simple link that is supposed to support the notion of a "target
namespace". This approach could permit you to associate resources with URIs
other than namespace URIs, such as public ids (as one example), as well. 

I had hoped to implement a proof-of-concept using such an approach, but it
was just a spare time activity and I got bogged down with other issues
(namely, building some editor plugins for Eclipse [1]). I hope to get back
into that effort once I get through tax time.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/

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