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Steven R. Newcomb scripsit: > (It would work quite well if a namespace declaration > referred, in addition to the domain name itself, to a dated version of > the document (!) that constitutes the table of all extant domain names > and their owners, and if the database of all domain names and their > owners at any point in time could be queried in much the same rapid, > universal way that is today used to resolve domain names to IP > addresses.) For this very reason, all W3C-assigned namespaces (with certain grandfathered exceptions) are of the form "http://www.w3.org/yyyy/..." where yyyy is a date. Of course the total state of the DNS is not represented in any one place, which would hardly be practical. > Again, it's just my neurosis, if you like, that names have to be > meaningful in order to be useful. All these XML Namespace names seem > to me about as useful as leaves blowing in the wind. Information that > I create today, using XML Namespaces, is far too subject to loss of > value, because of the high probability that the leaves will blow away. > I don't choose to invest my own life in the creation of information > that will not have the power to last. I can't recommend such > practices to my customers, either, regardless of the popularity of XML > Namespaces. Ars longa, vita brevis, etc. Then work hard on getting the FPI registration process repaired, so that there is a stable alternative. -- John Cowan cowan@c... Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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