Re: Status of Bugzilla Bug 10, Round-tripping various information in properties

There were several postings (most recently, one a couple of weeks ago)
that explained why escaping the XML as #PCDATA has a variety of problems.
For example:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2005OctDec/1056.html>
So until a non-problematic solution is proposed, I stick by my
preference for a recommendation that servers preserve namespaces
(namespace preserving parsers are not that hard to come by, so I
don't see this as an unreasonable recommendation).

Cheers,
Geoff

Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@apple.com> wrote on 12/22/2005 01:12:23 
PM:

>    For what it's worth, I talked to Greg Stein about this at 
> ApacheCon, and his position is that namespaces will not be preserved 
> by mod_dav, insofar as they are not semantically meaningful to a 
> namespace-aware XML parser.  The presence of other specifications 
> which add semantic meaning to then doesn't change that.
> 
>    This is basically the position I was taking.
> 
>    I (and I believe Greg) don't think this belongs in the spec, even 
> as a SHOULD.  An explicit recommendation that clients sent properties 
> as #PCDATA still makes a lot more sense to me.
> 
>    I have yet to hear a reason why serializing the property as 
> #PCDATA isn't an acceptable solution for whose who wish to avoid 
> forcing the server parse (and therefore interpret) the property value.
> 
>    -wsv
> 
> 
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
> > (1) I support adding an explicit recommendation that servers
> > preserve namespace prefixes in property values.  I'm neutral
> > on whether we use the term "SHOULD" in that recommendation.
>