Re: URI for XML schema and namespace

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 04 January 2008 19:07 UTC

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To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Right.
> 
> In my experience, developers want to resolve namespaces when they're 
> trying to figure out what the namespace means, what the schema is, etc. 
> But applications don't need to resolve namespaces, nor do end users. At 
> least as a general rule...
> 
> Peter

Of course. It's sad that this need to be pointed out from time to time :-)

BR, Julian