- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:46:42 +0100
- To: <LMM@acm.org>, "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Stefan Eissing'" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, <uri@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Larry Masinter > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:16 AM > To: 'Mark Baker'; 'Martin Duerst' > Cc: 'Stefan Eissing'; 'WebDAV'; uri@w3.org > Subject: RE: RFC2518 (WebDAV) / RFC2396 (URI) inconsistency > > > It seems like people have noted the following possibilities: > > * Change the URI spec to allow "DAV:" as a URI > * Change the WebDAV spec to use something other than "DAV:" as > the namespace name > > but have left out the following possibilities: > > * Change the XML namespace spec to allow "scheme-name:" as > a namespace name, even though it isn't a legal URI I mentioned this. > (This isn't such a big deal, since XML namespace names allow > IRIs with non-ASCII characters anyway, not really URIs) I don't think they do. "[Definition:] The attribute's value, a URI reference, is the namespace name identifying the namespace. ..." > * Declare that WebDAV bodies aren't really XML, because > the WebDAV spec has this little problem with the "DAV:" > namespace. WebDAV could also define that the message bodies do not use namespaces, and re-declare the namespace syntax so that "DAV:" is valid. However, I doubt that anybody would want *that*. It would basically mean that on the long run, an non-namespace aware XML processor is required, and that WebDAV servers/clients would need to do namespace checking and mapping on their own. > The latter is the closest approximation to the 'truth', requires > no incompatible changes to any specs or any other software, but > means that (as happens to be true) anyone trying to apply generic > XML software to WebDAV requests or responses has to be careful > because of the use of the "DAV:" namespace. I think you just argued for changing the WebDAV namespace (or to deprecate it and add an alternative one).
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