[ietf-provreg] RE: defining a reason code

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

Title:

From section 2.6 of RFC 4930:

 

"Zero or more OPTIONAL <extValue> elements", and

 

"A <reason> element containing a human-readable message that describes the reason for the error.  The language of the response is identified via an OPTIONAL "lang" attribute.  If not specified, the default attribute value MUST be "en" (English)."

 

No namespace needed, but you've got the <reason> element inside a <value> element when it should be inside an <extValue> element.  You should have some text in there, too.  Perhaps something like "5004: Invalid password".

-Scott-

 

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From: Eugenio Pinto [mailto:eugenio.pinto@fccn.pt]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:07 AM
To: ietf-provreg@cafax.se; Hollenbeck, Scott
Subject: defining a reason code

Hi,

I have another question regarding extending response codes.

I defined the following response message:

<epp xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0 epp-1.0.xsd">
  <response>
    <result code="2200">
      <msg>Authentication error</msg>
      <value>
        <reason>5004</reason>
      </value>
    </result>
    <trID>
      <clTRID>FCCN-12386</clTRID>
      <svTRID>TRN7063050306</svTRID>
    </trID>
  </response>
</epp>

where the reason element represents the code to a specific verified problem.

But I don't know if this is valid XML.

Can I define this this way, or I must include something with the namespace? like

    <result code="2200">
      <msg>Authentication error</msg>
      <value>
        <ptdomain:panData xmlns:ptdomain="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:ptdomain-1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:ptdomain1.0 ptdomain-1.0.xsd">
          <ptdomain:reason>5004</ptdomain:reason>
        <brdomain:panData>
      </value>
    </result>

Thanks for your feedback.