On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:39:27 -0700, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
At 06:07 PM 6/24/2005 -0700, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Parcel xml is only a local file format, read only by the parcel loader.
Any pretentions to other uses have fallen by the wayside. :) The
"http://osafoundation.org/parcels"; part of the namespace is currently
just there to satisfy the parser, and creates more confusion. It is not
used to uniquely identify anything.
In addition, Brendan's comments also highlight the fact that people
unfamiliar with XML namespace conventions are likely to want to go to
the http: URLs, looking for documentation or something like that. A
"parcel:" specifier looks like what it is: a reference to another
parcel. It won't lead people down a blind alley.
or alternatively, http: URL's are an opportunity to post documentation, or
maybe some fancy semantic-web/machine-readable schema declaration type
thing. Or at least clarify for the befuddled developer that "i am not
really a webpage but a namespace". e.g., you can click on
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml , the namespace url that's in every single
xhtml page.
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