[tei-council] Conformance draft: namespace purity

[James Cummings]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> I believe when I suggested this earlier a number of people argued 
>> against it because having it have the appearance of being part of the 
>> TEI NS URI might imply approval or condoning of these changes.  
> I can't say I buy that. By using the TEI NS URI, we  are saying that these
> are intended to be  used with the TEI, but are not the TEI. But I don't 
> mind if there is an alternative algorithm.

I could be convinced by that argument.  It also means that 
http://www.tei-c.org/ns/$NAME is under our control and we can put a page at
http://www.tei-c.org/ns/* (that isn't 1.0) saying that it is a user-defined 
namespace and the TEI is not responsible for it.

>> Maybe something like http://www.ProjectName.info/ns/$VersionNumber ?
> where does $VersionNumber come from?

Was assuming they'd add it just as they add ProjectName (as the name of the file)

-James

> 
> the problem with http://www.ProjectName.info/ns is that people have
> a minimal expectation of namespaces being human readable
> (for good or bad). If I had a "ProjectName" to hand, I could use it,
> I agree.
> 


-- 
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk