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Absolutely. As mentioned in my previous e-mails on this thread, the registration of namespace prefixes is not a viable idea, but the registration of namespace identifiers is (in my opinion). Daniel Veillard wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:30:49PM -0500, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > > <Quote> > > Yes, but there's going to be extreme wariness about anything centralized > > in what is fundamentally a markup language that enables > > decentralization. That's why even a dumb prefix repository is so > > controversial. > > </Quote> > > > > Depends on the audience/application of it. In my main client > > concentration (Federal government), some of these concepts can be > > considered very valuable, especially for promoting interoperability. > > You won't get any interoperability benefit if you decide to > allocate the prefix foo to something and that I have decided to use > it for something else and that the parser won't double check it. > If you have no way to have the check enforced, that registry would be > at best a guideline for those who decide to subscribe to it. Which > is perfectly fine by me because I don't want to get errors parsing my > existing and currently working documents if at some future point > someone decides to register the prefixes I use. > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ > veillard@r... | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ begin:vcard n:Chiusano;Joseph tel;work:(703) 902-6923 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.bah.com org:Booz | Allen | Hamilton;IT Digital Strategies Team adr:;;8283 Greensboro Drive;McLean;VA;22012; version:2.1 email;internet:chiusano_joseph@b... title:Senior Consultant fn:Joseph M. Chiusano end:vcard
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