RE: URI for XML schema - why bother?

"Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com> Mon, 28 January 2008 11:35 UTC

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Subject: RE: URI for XML schema - why bother?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:22:52 +0100
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I believe that such a recommendation is implicit in documents like RFC
3688. 

Dan


 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom.petch [mailto:cfinss@dial.pipex.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: Apps Discuss
> Subject: URI for XML schema - why bother?
> 
> Well, actually it was ' there is not point in having a schema name'.
> 
> I asked before what form URI should take for namespace and 
> schema, and I got a very clear answer, for which thank you.
> 
> But in two separate WGs I have proposed that schema should be 
> given a URI and it hasn't happened, in one case with the 
> reply to the effect that they add no value and are not worth having.
> 
> Instinctively I disagree and know of other WGs that do define 
> them (although I also saw an I-D which used a schema URI and 
> then removed it before becoming an RFC).
> 
> So what rational arguments might I advance as to why it is a 
> good idea to name a schema with a URI?
> 
> Tom Petch.
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