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Re: XPointer and XML Schema

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  • Subject: Re: XPointer and XML Schema
  • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Date: 17 Jul 2002 17:30:55 +0100
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xpointer schema
Eric vDv wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 17:57, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> > "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...> writes:
> 
> > > If XPointer is going to depend on XML Schema, it should do so in a
> > > well-specified way.
> > 
> > It doesn't, and the WG thought its non-dependency was already
> > well-specified by the phrase above.  
> 
> Isn't it necessary to introduce a XPointer scheme to identify the (or a)
> schema(s) which should be used to evaluate the bare names then? It's
> done to declare namespaces, why couldn't it be done to declare the
> schemas? Although it wouldn't be concise it would be fully
> "deterministic"!

We could do that, but it would be wrong (in my view).  Wrong because
it violates locality -- a barename link with name XYZZY is to what the
_target_ establishes as is its XYZZY ID, not the source.  Think of how
it works with DTDs, and a complex case with external entities and
catalogues and proxies and . . .  There's nothing I can do at the
source end to determine what the target is going to establish as the
referent under those circumstances.  So I don't think there should be
for the Schema case either.  The _user_ does that by setting up the
processing environment, in either case.

ht
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