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Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>
Date:
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:31:10 +0200
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Re: [ietf-provreg] RE: XML Namespaces, Prefixes & EPP compliance
Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: >> [...] > Not really an EPP violation, but it does sound like a violation of the > normative XML references that describe namespace requirements. I can > definitely add something to the specs (probably section 2 of RFC 3730*) to > make that clear. > > -Scott- > > * This is the paragraph that might be extended: > > "EPP uses XML namespaces to provide an extensible object management > framework and to identify schemas required for XML instance parsing and > validation. These namespaces and schema definitions are used to identify > both the base protocol schema and the schemas for managed objects. The > specific strings used to associate URIs and namespaces (such as the string > "foo" in "xmlns:foo") in EPP are illustrative and are not needed for > interoperability." > Hi Scott, this sounds a bit too weak to me. I would prefer something like: ... The XML namespace prefixes used in the examples are solely for demonstration purposes. A conforming implementation MUST NOT require the use of these or any other specific namespace prefixes. ... regards, Klaus ___________________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeißer-Weg 9 Dipl. Inf. Klaus Malorny 44227 Dortmund Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de Tel. +49 231 9703 0