AI 53: Editors team to produce a RDDL document to be placed at the namespace URIs

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

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 

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