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Paul Prescod wrote: > Tim Bray wrote: > >> The clouds billowing around the XLink/HLink rhubarb seem to have >> obscured the fact that the TAG also issued an opinion on "Namespace >> Documents", which in normal times would be good for approximately 8000 >> xml-dev messages. Check out >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Sep/0185.html - >> feedback would be welcome. -Tim > > It sounds like a reasonable direction to me. I think that there are huge > issues about how namespaces combine and how to combine resources > associated with them but for single-namespace documents, RDDL is a good > solution. Paul, you're about the fifth smart person to fall into this trip which means it's a nasty one and RDDLers have to be careful. There's no such thing as a RDDL for a document. There's a RDDL for a *namespace*. The problems of multi-namespace docs, and whether there is such a thing as a good general best practice for how to process them, is a big ugly problem that hasn't received enough consideration. RDDL might be a little piece of the solution (at least there's a place to go when information-gathering about any one of the namespaces) but there's way more to it. At the moment I'm unconvinceed there's a useful general solution. And by the way this is another gold star for XML-dev, where the RDDL ideas emerged & got worked out back in late 2000. -Tim
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