RE: [xtm-wg] New file uploaded to xtm-wg

[Peter Jones <peterj@wrox.com>]

>Seriously, though, if there were a way to "stake the grub" (and
>namespaces are seriously gurbby) without simultaneously polluting the
>instance, I'd be for that.

Just thought I'd chuck an idea on this into the pond. It seems to me that
you could think of all XML Namespace information that is contained in a
namespaced doc instance as something like an aggregate link, and therefore
not dissimilar from a scope in the BOS (which I believe several folks have
suggested can be implemented as topic/association).
What I mean is that instead of prefixing everything you suck all that
information out into a single reference point that _points_ at all the
things that it is "namespacing" and says, "these things are in this
namespace if you really need to know that. 
This might of course require the XTM community to define a public topic for
the purpose at some time.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Hunting [mailto:sam_hunting@yahoo.com]
Sent: 09 October 2000 20:16
To: xtm-wg@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] New file uploaded to xtm-wg


> > So my -$0.02 is, I'm of two minds. (1) I agree with Murray that
> > namespaces are confusing, but also feel (2) that it might be a good
> > thing to stake out, as it were, the real estate. No matter that the
> > "xtm" prefix is arbitrary, and the URI is truly important, etc., as
> > soon as software is in place that does processing based on the
> prefix,
> > the URI has less meaning.

> What is it that you think we should _do_? Stake out the territory? In
> my
> DTD I have an "unused default" of 'xtm', which approaches a grubstake
> but doesn't actually put up a flag.

Do? Well, that's up to the application ... ;-)

Seriously, though, if there were a way to "stake the grub" (and
namespaces are seriously gurbby) without simultaneously polluting the
instance, I'd be for that.

Or maybe not. Maybe Josephone Developer and Joe User are so used to
seeing "colonized" tag names in their sample instances they won't
believe XTM is a serious effort unless namespace prefixes aren't there.
In that case, I'd be for namespace prefixes everywere....

> [Stake, stake... steak. Now we're talking.]

Well, I typed "french cuisine Swindon" into Google and didn't get any
hits worth mentioning ;-)



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