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Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>
Date:
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:31:10 +0200
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Subject:
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
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