[DAS2] xml namespaces

[Andrew Dalke]

related to the previous email.  The spec uses the namespace

    http://www.biodas.org/ns/das/genome/2.00

I propose using a smaller and simpler URL.

The content does not matter to XML processors.  The practice though
is to use a URI which is resolvable for more information about the
element. For example,

      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"

Go to that and the response is

> This is an XML namespace defined in the XML Linking Language (XLink) 
> specification.
>
> For more information about XML, please refer to The Extensible Markup 
> Language (XML) 1.0 specification. For more information about XML 
> namespaces, please refer to the Namespaces in XML specification.


Similarly the XML namespace URI is
   http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
XSLT is
   http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

FOAF is
   http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
which points to the actual documentation

I like the last approach and propose that DAS2 use the namespace

      http://biodas.org/documents/das2/


					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com