Musing over Namespaces

Don Park donpark at docuverse.com
Fri Dec 17 19:05:42 GMT 1999


>That Joe can understand, or that his software can understand?  There's 
>a significant difference there.  We could set up some mechanism so
>that Joe's software could automatically retrieve a schema or schema
>fragment that covers {http://www.foo.com/ns/}alpha, but that's not
>much help -- Joe's software could tell that it's valid or invalid
>(whoopee!), but it still couldn't tell what it means.

What if the registry was a distributed semantic network?
If the problem could be solved, wouldn't it be worth
building it?  Note that this is not the way BizTalk and
XML.org schema repositories work.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark at docuverse.com
Docuverse   -   http://www.docuverse.com


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