namespace in the XML gnc-v2 tag proposal

Thu Aug 14 19:15:26 CDT 2003

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:58, Michael Vrable wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:48:29PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > > Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek at yahoo.com> writes:
> > > > <html xmlns:cust="http://www.gnucash.org/xml/cust"
> > > > xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/xml/gnc">
> > 
> > Does this mean that (in theory) valid namespace dtd's need to be
> > at this URL? Cause they're not there now ... 
> 
> My understanding is that no, they are not.  The URL is used as a unique
> identifier, but there's no requirement that anything be located there.
> 
>     Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#dt-NSName
> 
> Do some tools expect to find something there anyway?
> 
> (Also, any reasons for all the cross-posting?  I tried to cut down a
> little bit, but let me know if I should have kept all those addresses in
> there.)

No, to Linas.  You could really use anything there.  Your organization's
URL is pretty much guaranteed unique as a namespace, and it appears to
be traditional to use it.  You can, however, put something at the URL
describing the namespace--it's purpose, contents, etc.

The main requirement is that it be unique.
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Matthew Vanecek
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