Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook 5.0 namespace

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> | namespace name. What about
> |
> | 	http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
> 
> Yeah, I think I like that. It leaves us /ns/xxx for other things should
> we choose to do so.

Yesterday someone was proposing http://ns.docbook.org/something for 
namespace name. I have been thinking about it more and I don't think it 
is a good idea. First it is quite inconvenient to use third level domain 
name for this IMHO (I didn't see such namespace before), and more 
importantly domain names starting with "ns" are usually used for DNS 
servers. It could cause some confusion among users that have networking 
background.

So if this won't be against OASIS naming rules I think that

	http://docbook.org/ns/docbook

is the best namespace name we had on a plate till now.

I still personally think that URNs are better for namespace names, but 
web is moving in a little bit different direction and it is probably 
better to respect this than to resist on something (I mean URNs) that 
will look quite odd for many users in a future.

				Jirka

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