Re: URI for XML schema and namespace

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 04 January 2008 16:36 UTC

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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Besides, URNs are relatively easy to obtain, so why not use them?

Because you can't resolve them, unless you have out-of-band information 
about how to do that.

If you encounter a namespace URI such as 
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:contact-1.0", you'll have to google for it to 
obtain information about what it is. In this case, you'll find the right 
thing, but it would be much easier if the IANA just assigned namespace 
URIs such as

   <http://ns.ietf.org/contact-1.0>

in the first place.

The fact that it does not has caused many specs to get their namespace 
URIs from other places, such as the W3C and purl.org.

BR, Julian

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Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Julian Reschke
RE: URI for XML schema and namespace David Harrington
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Peter Saint-Andre
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Julian Reschke
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Peter Saint-Andre
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Julian Reschke
RE: URI for XML schema and namespace David Harrington
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Julian Reschke
RE: URI for XML schema and namespace Scott Hollenbeck
RE: URI for XML schema and namespace Scott Hollenbeck
RE: URI for XML schema and namespace Scott Hollenbeck
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Peter Saint-Andre
Re: URI for XML schema and namespace Julian Reschke
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