Re: ACL proposal comments

Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au> wrote:

> One comment - it says that XML namespace semantics are the
> same as those of WebDAV. Talking to people locally seems
> to indicate that the WebDAV interpretation of XML namespaces
> is not conformant to the XML namespace recommendation. Should
> ACL base the namespace interpretation on WebDAV, or on the
> XML namespaces specification? The ACL spec explicitly references
> the WebDAV RFC by number, so if a new WebDAV spec came along
> supporting the "official" XML namespace interpretation, then
> the spec would be out of date already. (Not a big deal - and
> probably no solution.)

RFC2518 has to be read in conjunction with the issues list cum addendum
which is at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/protocol/issues.html

(in particular see XML_NS)

Regards,
Tim

Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2001 05:41:00 UTC