https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31063
--- Comment #23 from Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> 2011-11-23 07:21:57 UTC --- > No, that's not "today's standard system", that's the verbose XML cult of > thought. You mean the Internet and the Semantic Web (including other serializations than xml) is a cult? :-) > Extension authors should have no reason to need to type in a full long uri > every time they refer to a namespace. Absolutely no need, they would use a local variable name. > Not to mention how decision on renaming extension pages or switching to a > different system for extension management could affect something that should > not be dependent on them. I don't understand the above. My assumption is that extensions need globally unique identifiers. Else you either have to create yet another global registry, or two extensions end up using the same identifier. Traditionally many domain specific registries existed, but I stand by my comment: increasingly we do switch these to URIs, whether it is photometadata, institutions, publications, authors, biological organism names, etc. It is not strictly a "standard system" - please excuse my lax use of language. But it is not a cult, it is a well reasoned, sane decision. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
