- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:51:16 +0100
- To: "Jason Crawford" <ccjason@us.ibm.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Cc: "Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@Rational.Com>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
I don't think that the spec should make any attempt to explain how XML works. What *could* be done is to vary the XML style in the examples. For instance, <multistatus xmlns="DAV:" /> is even shorter, and as readable (at least in those examples where no mixing with other namespaces is needed). > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jason Crawford > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:01 AM > To: Roy T. Fielding > Cc: Clemm, Geoff; 'WebDAV' > Subject: Re: Purpose of Namespace > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:13:42PM -0500, Clemm, Geoff wrote: > > > I do not understand your point here. > > > > > > WebDAV uses XML namespaces to provide extensibility for > > > property names, not because it lets the examples > > > be shorter. > > Maybe that should be said in the spec. > > I can add that to the issues/todo list, but I think I've heard Jim and a > few other people mention something about the prefered style of > prose in the > spec, so I thought I'd check first... > > Is this something we want to put in the spec... or would we put that in a > meta document?... like an annotated spec? > > If latter, I'm sure I can denote that in the issues list. > > J. > > ------------------------------------------ > Phone: 914-784-7569, ccjason@us.ibm.com > >
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