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Paul Prescod wrote: > > James Tauber wrote: > > > > 1. Namespace URIs don't have to point to anything retrievable, they are just > > unique identifiers > > 2. Some URI schemes might not be web-retrievable (eg "isbn:1-23456-789-0") > > 3. Some URI schemes *are* web-retrievable (eg http://www.megginson.com/ns/) > > 4. So namespaces URIs *can* point to something, though, such as a > > human-readable description of the namespace, if they use a URI scheme that > > is web-retrievable. > > It strikes me as clearly poor design to use an HTTP url for something not > retrievable by the HTTP protocol. It would be, but no such examples were given. I suspect that the "isbn" protocol example would be better written urn:isbn:whatever - but regardless, it did not claim to be using the http protocol > I am distressed that this is becoming > "standard practice." How the heck are we supposed to know, on seeing a URI > whether it is supposed to be retrievable or not? Look at the protocol part and see if you understand that protocol. -- Chris xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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