- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:23:45 -0700
- To: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Section 24.4 defines namespaces according to a very old draft of XML > namespaces. In particular, it still uses a PI for the namespace > specification. Is there a plan to update that section with respect to > the current namespace specification? (at > http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-names) It would seem inappropriate to > demand conformance to this outdated spec (the first paragraph of 24.4.1 > requires this conformance). You are correct -- Section 24.4 is currently out of date w.r.t. the current XML Namespaces proposal. However, the current XML Namespace proposal is only a W3C Working Draft, and is not yet completely stable. While I don't expect there to be massive changes to the XML Namespaces spec. between now and its final approval, there will be some changes, and hence I am loathe to update the DAV draft until XML Namespaces are finalized. But, it is my recommendation that the WebDAV Distributed Authoring protocol be updated to reflect the new XML Namespaces draft once it is approved, or near approval. Once it is at Proposed Recommendation status, I'll feel comfortable moving forward. But, I'm also unwilling to have approval of the WebDAV Distributed Authoring protocol be held up by the XML Namespaces work. This raises some issues on how exactly the revision of the WebDAV Distributed Authoring specification will occur. There are many possible cases here -- I prefer to wait until the XML Namespaces draft proceeds to Proposed Recommendation before committing to any particular course of action. If I were implementing the WebDAV Distributed Authoring protocol, ideally I would make sure I could understand both types of XML Namespace. > Also, the spec does not explicitly discuss the fact that "DAV:" is a > valid URI that has been reserved for DAV. It implies it when it > discusses each element, but it would seem appropriate that if DAV is > going to treat the (short) string "DAV:" as a URI, then it should call > that out explicitly. Section 17, "IANA Considerations" clearly states that we are defining a new URI scheme, and that it has been reserved for use by WebDAV. - Jim
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