[dsdl-discuss] Re: The missing question (for DSDL8)

Francis

Can you make a stronger case for requiring the ability for allowing the URI
associated with a particular prefix to change?

Martin

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From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: [dsdl-discuss] Re: The missing question (for DSDL8)

Theoretically, there could be a use when there are Qnames in content being
used. Such prefixes would not be distinguished and available in an XML
infoset implementation, such as DOM or SAX. So URL remapping is the only
option.

I don't know whether there are any cases of this actually, and I don't
suppose it is particularly important. I agree with Murata-san's point in
general, though. So perhaps if Martin does include Namespace remapping, it
could have a note to the effect "Prefer prefix remapping to namespace
remapping."

Cheers
Rick

MURATA Makoto said:
>> Dear DSDLers
>>
>> The following issue, raised by Francis Cave, did not get discussed in
>> Montreal (for which my apologies Francis):
>>
>> >Do we need to add a mechanism that would allow namespace URI's (as
>> opposed to namespace prefixes)
>> to be mapped when doing renaming?
>>
>> The key point here is that we do not want to change the prefix, only the
>> URI it refers to (e.g. to go from one version of the XHTML schema to
>> another)
>
>
> Then, I would say no. Prefixes are just proxies. Although some people
> would like to preserve prefixes, I think that such a mechanism
> encourages bad conventions.
>
> Cheers,
>
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