- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:32:23 +0100
- To: Evert | Rooftop <evert@rooftopsolutions.nl>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Evert | Rooftop wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm working on a WebDAV implementation, and for convenience i'd like to
> serialize the full xml namespace + tag name into a single string.
>
> So far I've used:
>
> DAV:#resourcetype
>
> But, I realize this isn't ideal because XML namespaces can contain the
> #. I've seen some WebDAV use :
>
> {DAV:}resourcetype
>
> Would this be the preferred serialization method?
> ...
Indeed.
This is the format proposed by Jim Clark a long time ago, so sometimes
it's called "Clark Notation". It's also used in quite a few APIs that
use namespace/localname pairs as identifiers, such as in SAX or in JCR 2.0.
BR, Julian
Received on Monday, 9 February 2009 08:33:04 UTC