RE: RFC2518 (WebDAV) / RFC2396 (URI) inconsistency

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Matt Timmermans
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:18 AM
> To: 'Julian Reschke'; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: RE: RFC2518 (WebDAV) / RFC2396 (URI) inconsistency
>
>
> Wow, that's annoying!
>
> It seems to me that fixing RFC2396 to allow an empty opaque_part would be
> best, unless someone can recall any rationale for disallowing it in the
> first place.  It looks quite arbitrary.

Yes, it does.

> Note that even if IETF changed the DAV namespace, you still
> couldn't write a
> meaningful schema for WebDAV, because schema languages don't recognize the
> odd naming convention that RFC2518 adopts in 23.4.2 (Meaning of Qualified
> Names).

That's on the list of known and resolved WebDAV issues. This section is
going to be deleted.

> If anything is going to be done to change the basic XML structure
> of WebDAV,
> it would be a good time to fix 23.4.2 as well.
>
> What I really _don't_ want to see is everyone doing <dp:ropertyupdate
> xmlns:dp="DAV:p"> to get conformance to all 3 specs.

That would be a mess. The only sane position is that the XML namespaces
recommendation processing rules apply.

Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2001 03:21:30 UTC