Hi Oliver, Oliver Becker wrote: <snip/> ... <snip/> IE 5 includes support for validating XML documents against a subset of XML-Data Schemas. For the rest of...
francis
francis@...
Jun 1, 1999 11:08 am
10743
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan said: Note that when the string "http://www.w3.org/xxx" is used as an XML namespace URI this is a URN not a URL by definition (the scheme...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jun 1, 1999 11:18 am
10744
Hi Paul, Paul said: According to RFC 2396, A URI is a sequence of characters with a restricted syntax that can act as a reference to something that has...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jun 1, 1999 11:18 am
10745
... That's a great idea, and SAX2 will support such extensions itself, if you want. I should mention, however, that we have discussed adding some further DTD...
David Megginson
david@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:25 pm
10746
... My reading of RFC 2396 suggests that the intention is to supercede the definitions of both URLs and URNs. Interestingly 2396 defines 'resource' as either...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:33 pm
10747
... Yes but 'existence' can mean abstract existence, i.e. existence as a concept or existence as a name. Hence any syntactically legal URI when used only as a...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:44 pm
10748
There is an alpha version of SAX2 for Java available for download from http://www.megginson.com/SAX/SAX2/ Be warned that this is very early, and that...
David Megginson
david@...
Jun 1, 1999 3:01 pm
10749
... As it happens, I've been working on an application which fits the definition for "XML Processor" and have been thinking about inclusion. So this is quite...
Joshua E. Smith
jesmith@...
Jun 1, 1999 4:18 pm
10750
... This may be feasible in closed-world scenarios. In the Real (i.e. open) World, identity may be a very hard problem! It took the ancient Greeks centuries...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Jun 1, 1999 5:02 pm
10751
... This is a very difficult problem without an easy solution. This problem will arise with most data whose lifespan is expected to be long. Short term...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jun 1, 1999 5:31 pm
10752
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@...> ... A URL can be a URN if the creator declares it to remain unique. From: "Mark D....
Carl Hage
carl@...
Jun 1, 1999 5:32 pm
10753
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan said: Under the definition of URN in 2396, a URN is any URI whose intention is to reference an abstract resource, act primarily as a...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jun 1, 1999 7:36 pm
10754
Hi Carl, Carl said: A URL can be a URN if the creator declares it to remain unique. Didier says: False, it also as to conform to RFC2141 specs. Actually (until...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jun 1, 1999 7:36 pm
10755
Is there a central repository for all RFC specs?? Carl said: A URL can be a URN if the creator declares it to remain unique. Didier says: False, it also as to...
Jeff Langdon
jlangdon@...
Jun 1, 1999 8:46 pm
10756
... Please contact me, if you like, for a demo of GroveMinder, which can provide access to XML documents, including every aspect of their DTDs, as if they were...
Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:25 pm
10757
... I'll try to remember to bring two blindfolds for myself, one for each of my well-deserved executions. Yes, the grove paradigm is an object model, while the...
Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:25 pm
10758
[Didier:] ... Sounds like the role of xml.org to me. ... Yup. Actually, we need an engine for this purpose, and, even more important, * the ability to plug...
Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:26 pm
10759
* David Megginson ... Great! I'm really happy to see SAX2 moving forward another step. Immediate reactions: it looks good, but filters seem to be missing. I...
Lars Marius Garshol
larsga@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:57 pm
10760
There appear to be conflicts between RFC's 2396 (URI: Generic Syntax) and 2141 (URN Syntax). Interestingly, RFC 2396 is not specified as updating RFC 2141. In...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:59 pm
10761
... [Ron Daniel] I have seen some similar assertions that URNs are not to be resolved. That is not the case. URNs are meant to be resolved, but they do not...
Ron Daniel
RDaniel@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:18 pm
10762
John Cowan noted that an email-based URN mechanism could be harvested by both current and future spam-address collectors. There are three possible levels of...
Paul Prescod
paul@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:21 pm
10763
... Tim claims that a namespace is not a resource of any sort. The namespace mechanism uses a string that happens to be a URI. The existence of the URI implies...
Paul Prescod
paul@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:33 pm
10764
A pedantic point to clarify some of the confusion over '/' in URNs and URLs. RFC 2141 (the URN syntax spec) says that forward slashes SHOULD NOT be used in...
Ron Daniel
RDaniel@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:34 pm
10765
... I suspect this is false, and that harvesters will recognize "foo@..." embedded in any text. ... I like option 2 also. "I do not like this URNish spam!...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:40 pm
10766
Thanks, your comments are very well put and helpful. I do not in fact intend to use relative urn's. I do, however, need them to be as human-readable/writable...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Jun 1, 1999 11:32 pm
10767
Hi Jeff, Is there a central repository for all RFC specs?? Yes http://www.ietf.org regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@... ...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jun 2, 1999 1:51 am
10768
... Not everyone defines resource as it is defined in RFC 2396. Perhaps Tim might clarify his thought wrt this specific definition. ... If this is how...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jun 2, 1999 2:11 am
10769
... Okay, fine: "A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource." Normatively...
Paul Prescod
paul@...
May 31, 1999 10:16 pm
10770
... A string can be 'for' identifying an (abstract or physical) resource without any URI-string to resource bindings currently being in effect. ...
Dan Brickley
Daniel.Brickley@...
May 31, 1999 10:42 pm
10771
... Which is why my idea involves a URI scheme that has a schema-specific part that corresponds to HTTP. What I am suggesting is that if one has the right to ...