Overloaded URIs must GO!

[David Megginson]

Didier PH Martin writes:

 > David, I participated to the URN elaboration within IETF auspices. If you go
 > the IETF official RFC repository you'll find that the RFC 2141 defining URNs
 > is posted since already at least more than a year. So URNs are as real as
 > XML is and because it is the byproduct of IETF probably created in a more
 > democratic way than XML itself. Also, an other RDF has been created to
 > specify how URNs are resolved with DNS. Bottom line there is an
 > authoritative specification: RFC 2141.

The problem is that there are no authoritative specifications for any
URN namespaces except the IETF one.  If I wanted to use a URN for an
XML Namespace today, how would I construct it without using an x-* URN
namespace?


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)