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After the usual violence, it sounds like we may have an opportunity to finally resolve some of these namespace URI issues and escape the cycle of endless namespace discussion - while helping an enormous number of people apply namespaces in creative and useful ways. I think Tim Bray [1] pointed the way forward: >I think that if you got a group of qualified people, mostly >computer programmers, together, you could cook, in a few >weeks, cook up a nice little markup vocabulary containing >[XHTML+XLink catalogues] There seems to be a lot (for a holiday weekend, and especially for anything involving namespaces) of enthusiasm: >Nice. A human *and* machine readable catalogue as a >mixture of XHTML, XLink, etc. What are we waiting for? >I'm glad of Tim's recent clarifications. They help me marshal my own >thoughts and prepare to move on, invoking a modified form of the Treaty of >Wulai. >Blimey, this is a good idea... >Both of these work for me. >Sounds like a good plan; and not so far what we've already seen deployed >for RSS and Dublin Core. To me, these comments, which come from people with a wide variety of viewpoints in this discussion, suggest that Tim's basically got it right. Rick Jelliffe has some important concerns about differing viewpoints [2] which I think need to be considered, but I'm think interoperability with those approaches is definitely possible. We've had a number of proposals ([1] [3] [4] [5]) which I think provide a solid starting point, despite differences in details. I'd like to think we can agree on a core set of needs, basically a catalog list of resource locations and type identifiers in some kind of context, and reach some kind of useful agreement quickly. I'm not sure XML-Dev's authority will be enough to make this work in the world, but I'd like to think that we can at least point a way forward. And maybe we can make a New Year's resolution to not be in the same discussion this time next year. [1] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00720.html [2] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00741.html [3] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00725.html [4] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00728.html [5] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00729.html (summary) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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