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RE: XML name space (was: suggested new RRtype experiment)

2004-05-24 19:14:53

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:01, Bob Atkinson wrote:
Doug,
 
There is absolutely no ad-hocness being proposed. Nor is there any
ambiguity or uncertainty in the semantics of the use of elements which
match against xsd:any constructs, as you seem to believe there is.

XML has specific constructs, but is verbose.  Distilling all XML
information needed to communicate structural information found in the
DNS TXT RR into a single token is compelling.  The need to update
relevant documents or complied libraries is then determined by a new
token introduced via this standards process.  These changes can then be
assessed and tested before adoption rather than as experienced through
ad hoc changes.

-Doug



 
Please take a couple of hours to skim over the XML Schema spec or its
primer. You can find the latter at 
 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/
 
    Bob

______________________________________________________________________
From: Douglas Otis [mailto:dotis(_at_)mail-abuse(_dot_)org]
Sent: Mon 5/24/2004 4:50 PM
To: Andrew Newton
Cc: Bob Atkinson; Jim Lyon; MARID
Subject: Re: XML name space (was: suggested new RRtype experiment)



XML specifies neither semantics nor a tag set [..].  This takes away
the ad hoc
nature of XML which will otherwise produce a profusion of definitions.

I see this as a means to clarify a need for an orderly change to these
definitions.  This offers no guarantee unpublished tokens will not
appear, but it will be crystal clear such unpublished tokens would be
outside recognized standards, in the same manner using a network
protocol other than those recognized like TCP would be clearly outside
recognized standards. XML "as is" suggests otherwise.

-Doug