RE: [ws-rx] RE: AI 53: Editors team to produce a RDDL document to be placed at the namespace URIs

["Paul Cotton" <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>]

> Unless we do something horribly wrong, only a handful of developers
> should ever need to know what a SecquenceAcknowledgment header (to
pick
> an example) looks like.

The XML Query/XSL WGs didn't provide the artifact URI's for XQuery/XSLT
users.  In fact we added them because people using RDF and the Semantic
Web wanted to be able to make assertions about the artifacts and they
wanted each to have a stable URI. 

/paulc

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilbert Pilz [mailto:Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com]
> Sent: December 13, 2005 12:49 PM
> To: Paul Cotton
> Cc: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [ws-rx] RE: AI 53: Editors team to produce a RDDL document to
be
> placed at the namespace URIs
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the links. The Xpath/Xquery/XSLT namespace example is
really
> excellent work but I don't think WS-RM needs that level of treatment.
> Unless we do something horribly wrong, only a handful of developers
> should ever need to know what a SecquenceAcknowledgment header (to
pick
> an example) looks like.
> 
> - g
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:45 PM
> > To: Gilbert Pilz
> > Cc: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: AI 53: Editors team to produce a RDDL document to be
> > placed at the namespace URIs
> >
> > I agreed to supply some examples of namespace documents on
> > today's call.
> >
> > Perhaps the best example of a RDDL namespace document is at
> > the namespace URI for the contributed WS-ReliableMessaging
> > specification:
> > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm/
> >
> > Some other interesting namespace documents examples include:
> >
> > a) http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
> > Note: A namespace document for a much older namespace.
> >
> > b) http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions
> > Note: This document goes further than many by providing URI's
> > for the artifacts defined in the namespace to give a human
> > readable explanation of each and a URI to identify each:
> > "Each function and operator is uniquely identified with a URI of the
> > form: "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/#name"; where
> > name is the name of a function or operator."
> >
> > BTW, the draft W3C TAG finding on the TAG issue
> > NamespaceDocument-8 describes formats for namespace documents:
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/nsDocuments/
> >
> > /paulc
> >
> > Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> > 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3
> > Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> > mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >