[dsdl-discuss] Re: DIS XML for Part 3 with disposition of

Martin Bryan wrote:

>>And if there is a requirement from the Japanese that every new XML
>>
>>
>language is in an XML Namespace, for management or SOAP enveloping
>reasons, then perhaps they might like to raise it at SC34 as a general
>policy. (For publishing, I have never seen namespaces used, for the usual
>reasons that i) publishers need entity references and hence DTDs, and ii)
>that publishing DTDs tend to be old and evolving rather than new
>vocabularies. So I am loath to use them except where modularity is
>needed.)
>
>I will raise this at the WG1 meeting, and seriously oppose it for reasons
>along the lines you indicated. I will also oppose its adoption in Part 3 for
>the reasons given in my message to Murata.
>
>
Hmm. I don't think it unreasonable to support a requirement that
namespaces are used for
any new XML vocabularies standardized by SC34. That is a very different
issue than
that we expect/force our users to use namespaces for *their* non-schema
documents :-)

Please can we disconnect any SC34 policy considerations from SVRL, and
just go ahead
with the simplest thing that makes everyone happy: to add the namespace
using XML DTD
format. There is no need to wait for namespace-aware DTDs, nor to miss
out on a
Japanese requirement that is just housekeeping.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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