On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pete Johnston wrote:
> > DCMI namespace
> > A DCMI namespace is a collection of DCMI terms. Each DCMI namespace
> is identified by a URI.
>
> Now this, it seems to me, _does_ say something about the type of the
> resources which are identified by the URIs:
>
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
> http://purl.org/dc/terms/
> http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
>
> Is a "DCMI namespace" an "XML namespace", or is there some further
> subtle distinction being made here?
I've lost the thread of this... but I'll answer anyway! :-)
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!).
Andy
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