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Re: A very preliminary draft on what to put at namespaceURLs

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
• Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:00:22 +0100

On 27/06/2012 20:57, Victor Porton wrote:
>
> (I think, later I should convert it into HTML format.)

yes .doc files really are not appropriate for the web.

> Saying that, please look into my file and comment, both technically
> and philosophically.
>

The document really doesn't give any overview or justification for what
it's trying to do. It just lists a way of listing (using RDF for some
unexplained reason) some transformations that you may want to do on some
XML.

It seems to assume that this:

> ..... the rules of transformation between this namespace and other
> XML namespaces.



That (a) there is generally some set of transformations that one wants
to apply to documents using a particular namespace and that (b) it is
useful to list these transformations at the namespace URI and that (c)
the documents are likely to be processed in a context such that the
namespace URI is reachable to be dereferenced. I think that in most
cases all three of those things are false, so I'm sorry I'm at a loss to
see how I could use this for MathML as a specific example that I know
something about.

Of the hundreds of transformations that one could imagine applying to a
MathML expression. Which would make sense to list at the namespace URI?


David

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  • A very preliminary draft on what to put at namespace URLs
    • From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>