RE: regarding issue 3545

DaveO,

This is cut-n-paste from WS-RM... I have no problem with use of any 
namespace for attribute extensibility.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=440
phone: +1 508 377 9295

public-ws-policy-request@w3.org wrote on 08/08/2006 07:17:44 PM:

> Why is it that the attribute extensibility is for ##other 
> namespaces?  There's no UPA problems with ##any namespace for 
attributes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> 
> From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christopher B Ferris
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:01 AM
> To: public-ws-policy@w3.org
> Subject: regarding issue 3545
> 
> 
> Editors, 
> 
> Regarding the resolution for issue 3545 [1] which was assigned to 
> the editors to address this editorially, 
> I dug up the text used by the OASIS WS-RX [2]. 
> 
> Elements and Attributes defined by this specification are referred 
> to in the text of this document using 
> XPath 1.0 [XPATH 1.0] expressions. Extensibility points are referred
> to using an extended version of this 
> syntax: 
>         * An element extensibility point is referred to using {any} 
> in place of the element name. This 
> indicates that any element name can be used, from any namespace 
> other than the wsrm: 
> namespace. 
>         * An attribute extensibility point is referred to using 
> @{any} in place of the attribute name. This 
> indicates that any attribute name can be used, from any namespace 
> other than the wsrm: 
> namespace. 
> 
> Hope this helps. Feel free to use this text, or not as you see fit. 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3545 
> [2] 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-rx#technical
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Christopher Ferris
> STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
> email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=440
> phone: +1 508 377 9295