- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:35:56 +0100
- To: Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>
- CC: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanchez.net>, WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Jim Whitehead wrote: > I'd like to better understand what the perceived implementation issues are. > > One issue we create by preserving namespaces is the potential for > inconsistency. > > Consider: > > Request A uses namespace mapping foo="http://www.webdav.org/" and sets > the value of property foo:prop1 using it. > > Request B uses namespace mapping foo="http://www.ucsc.edu/" and sets the > value of property foo:prop2 using it. > > Request C requests properties prop1 and prop2. > > Servers could handle this by using appropriately scoped namespace > declarations. It would involve a change in XML handling for some servers > that put all namespace declarations at the beginning of the multistatus > XML response. Jim, this is a non-issue. Nobody has asked for preserving namespace prefixes for the property element itself. > ... Best regards, Julian
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