[dsdl-discuss] Re: First draft of Schematron spec (Schematronin one defun)

Rick wrote

>I don't think it is useful to use URLs for this purpose. The only purpose
of
a URL is to promote frustration, as people type the wrong thing in, as far
as I can see. Also, which URL should it be? The user would expect it
to be the URL of the query language, but what it really needs to be is
the URL of the query language binding.

>I tend to see this kind of binding as operating more positively than
negatively:
just as with RELAX NG datatype libraries, validators will implement one or
two
bindings and sophisticated users will make inhouse or custom-job bindings,
so
most of time the purpose of the identifier is just a filter to filter out
uncommon bindings.

>I guess this is a policy thing: I don't have strong opinions, since there
is a default.
Probably James loves the idea of lots of URLs :-)

Should we be thinking along the lines of MIME types rather than URLs?

Martin

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