comment on VOTable Format Definition v1.09

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:

> >Finally, I may have mentioned this one about the namespace.  I think it 
> >would be appropriate to base the namespace URI on www.ivoa.net.  In 
> >particular, I recommend we follow the convention used with the resource 
> >metadata schemas, and use "http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOTable/v1.1".  
> 
> ===> Sure, in the final version, it will point there. But it also
>      means that the physical document must be copied there,
>      who is allowed to do this ?

No, it doesn't mean that.  The function of the namespace URI is simply
to provide a unique string of characters to act as a namespace identifier.
There is no requirement for there to be a document at the end of it.

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