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8/18/2002 10:12:11 AM, Paul Prescod <paul@p...> wrote: > >> At what point would we conclude that it was all a good but >> unworkable idea, and just use IANA or whatever to globally >> map short acronyms onto namespace prefixes and file suffixes? > >I don't think that scales. Right ... as a practical matter, I'm not suggesting official acronyms will be used as a universal replacement for namespace declarations, just for the ones that do have a special place in the Cosmology: W3C XML Schema Definition Language, RELAX NG perhaps, XSLT, SoAP, etc. As is true of HTML DTDs, much real software is just going to recognize vocabularies and call hard-coded processors, not use the generic schema/namespace mechanisms for many such formats. There's something to be said for the W3C or someone anticipating the inevitable deprecation of the namespace URIs in SOAP or whatever (e.g., does every SOAP message to a mobile phone REALLY need to declare the SOAP:, xsd:, and xsi: prefixes? that most use?) (This would, of course, apply equally well to RESTful examples of instances of a well-known schema that uses the <beast xsi:type="xsd:int">666</beast> construct. )
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