Andy said:
> A "DCMI namespace" is an "XML namesapce" as defined by the
> first definition in
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
An XML namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI
reference
[RFC2396], which are used in XML documents as element types and
attribute names.
> I suppose one might try to make the argument that because DCMI terms
are used outside of XML documents,
> a DCMI namespace is somehow more than an XML namespace? (But I
wouldn't!).
I think this is the point I'm struggling towards....
I admit my question might seem a stupid one, or pedantry just for the
sake of it, but it seems to me that an XML Namespace can only be a
collection of "names... that are used in XML documents as element types
and attribute names".
It seems to me that on this basis an XML Namespace can _not_ be a
collection of DCMI terms, because a DCMI term is _not_ an XML element
type name or XML attribute name. A DCMI term might (sometimes) be
_represented_ by an XML element type name or an XML attribute name but
that's not the same thing.
So a "DCMI namespace" is not an XML namespace, it's a "term set" or
something like that.....
That still fits with Patrick's comment earlier on today that the
"defining resource" can be anything in the universe, but I think it's
something slightly different from an XML Namespace.
Pete
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