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At 01:10 PM 29/12/00 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >Maybe we could finally break the cycle of namespace violence by >re-examining the decision to drop the src pseudo-attribute, which appears >to have happened between the 18-May-1998 draft of Namespaces in XML >(http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xml-names-19980518) and the 16-September-1998 >draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xml-names-19980916). It was dropped because the inevitable question arose: does src= point at a DTD or some to-be-determined-in-the-future other schema language? ... and the subsequent realization that even in the traditional DTD territory, you often have more than one associated with a single vocabulary. Bringing it back won't help with the problem. I still think that dereferencing a namespace URI in an ideal world should yield something containing lots of human-readable explanatory text (ideally in a minimum of two widely-used human languages), plus pointers to lots of different machine-readable related resources, but I've been saying this for 2 years now and don't seem to be winning the argument. -Tim
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