Re: Proposal: requesting XML records

Andy Powell wrote :-

>
>  Proposed Agreement: To retrieve XML records, supply the XML record syntax
>  object identifier (1.2.840.10003.5.109.10) as the record syntax, and
>  supply a globally unique identifier of the desired XML definition as the
>  element set name.
>

Very good!

and then :-

>  Recommended best practice is to use a URI as the globally unique
>  identifier.  In general, the URI should not be the locator of an XML
>  schema definition or DTD.

>It would be good to explicitly state that the ESN URI need not be an
>'http' URI (because all the examples you use are http URIs and this might
>confuse people?).

Why not? This is exactly what I would do when providing XML data. Under the 
motto : Click and see.
I don't see why it should be explicitly discouraged.

Jonathan

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Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2003 06:42:26 UTC