RE: Namespaces in XML: 3.1 the example [2]

Andrew Layman (andrewl@microsoft.com)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:52:32 -0800

There is not necessarily anything at the "other end" of
"http://books.org/schema/". This is simply a unique name, a URI, which
serves to distinguish any names associated with it from all other names on
the web. For example, to distinguish, in effect "title, as defined by
books.org" from "title, as defined by landuse.org."

If there is a document defining the names, that would be referenced by the
'src' attribute, as in <?xml:namespace ns="http://books.org/schema/"
prefix="B" src="http://books.org/schema/books/"?>. This document might be
human-readable text, it might be a DTD, it might be an XML-Data schema, or
it might be something else besides. A cheese sandwich, though? Probably
not.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Tennant [SMTP:rtennant@library.berkeley.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 4:13 PM
> To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Namespaces in XML: 3.1 the example [2]
>
> Please forgive my ignorance here, but I've been trying to figure out what
> *exactly* is on the other end of this (for example):
>
> <?xml:namespace ns="http://books.org/schema/" prefix="B"?>
>
> That is, what is to be found at http://books.org/schema/? A data schema
> marked up in XML-Data? A Web document? A cup of coffee and a cheese
> sandwich? Please, inquiring minds want to know...thanks,
> Roy Tennant
>
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