Re: URI for XML schema and namespace

"Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 04 January 2008 19:17 UTC

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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:17:41 -0800
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
Subject: Re: URI for XML schema and namespace
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On Jan 4, 2008 10:45 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
>
> 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...

Exactly.

I have been told (I forget by whom) that there is some doubt as to who
actually controls ietf.org.  Sigh.  -Tim