We have a namespace: xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"
Mary isn't (or shouldn't) be saying that we need to put all our
elements into a namespace. I don't agree that, just because we have DTDs
and XSDs, we need to have a namespace, but we do have a namespace name--except
that our namespace doesn't follow the conventions she outlined. I'm not
sure if the conventions she mentions came about after we came up with our
namespace name or if we screwed up in coming up with a name in oasis-space
without getting permission, but at this point it's too late to change (it's
been like that since DITA 1.0 and lots of tools rely on it).
So what we should probably do is put an appropriately modified
version of http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/namespace.html at http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/index.html
(since that's what will get read when someone puts "http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"
into their browser).
Then for DITA 2.0 we can come up with more OASIS-compliant
namespace names.
paul
From: Kristen James Eberlein
[mailto:kris@eberleinconsulting.com]
Sent: Thursday, 2010 May 20 12:50
To: Michael Priestley
Cc: DITA TC
Subject: Re: [dita] We need a name space for DITA 1.2
OK, I'll
let Mary know.
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; keberlein (skype)
On 5/20/2010 1:46 PM, Michael Priestley wrote:
We explicitly
decided to delay namespaces as an issue until 1.3. We'll probably want multiple
namespaces, to reflect the modular nature of the standard.
If they are
requiring us to declare one before we're ready, we should push back.
Michael
Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25
According to Mary McRae, we no
longer need an overview document; the overview document was necessary ONLY because
we had both an architectural spec and a language spec.
However, Mary says:
"Since there are DTDs and Schemas, the TC must define a namespace. I
highly recommend that the TC define an http namespace and provide a namespace
document. The namespace document will contain links to the spec, the schemas
and the dtd files. OASIS requires namespaces to be in the following format:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/dita/{namespace name goes here} OR
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/ns/{namespace name goes here}"
So what do we want for our namespace name?
FYI, here is a link to the OASIS namespace template:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/namespace.html
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Charter member, OASIS DITA Adoption Committee
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; keberlein (skype)