Why do XML namespace URIs use the http scheme?
- by svick
A XML namespace should be a URI, but it can use any URI scheme, including those that are not URLs.
Then why do all widely used XML namespaces use the http scheme (e.g. http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace), considering that trying to use the URI as an URL by retrieving that document using the HTTP protocol is not guaranteed to do anything useful…