I would agree that having a namespace be dereferenceable is a best
practice, but it is not a convention. For something to be a convention
I believe it has to be the conventional practice in a community, and
it is certainly arguable that it is not as yet conventional for all
markup languages to have dereferenceable namespaces. That said I
believe one could argue that is has become a convention for large
standards organizations to use dereferenceable namespaces.
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Len <> wrote:
> A convention or best practice would be putting a namespace dictionary or
> document at the location indicated by the namespace URI. For example,
> yesterday we were analyzing an emergency service message which turned out to
> be CAP plus another namespace (ha) (really, the prefix is 'ha'). We are
> trying to track it down but there is no document at that location.
>
> len
>
>
> From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:]
>
> What conventions have formed in the XML community? Are there any
> conventions that have become universally accepted? Are there
> conventions that have been adopted only within a community?
>
>
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