Re: Proposal: requesting XML records

Mike Taylor wrote:

> Then the honest thing to do is define a nice, shiny, new record-syntax
> OID meaning "XML record according to the schema identified in the
> ESN".

That seem's like a fine idea to me.

>
> > (2) what would "the ESN is interpreted as a URI" mean, anyway? We're
> > not going to prescribe dynamic behavior upon encountering a URI.
>
> Good point.  Then maybe we should shut up about URIs altogether.  We
> could lose all the proposal's most confusing prose that way.  Then the
> proposal reduces to "when the requested record syntax is XML, the ESN
> contains a specification of the desired schema".

Perhaps. But much of the point of this is to use globally unique esns. URIs
are the only globally unique identifiers we have, without setting up another
naming authority.

But I'll revise the prose so that it doesn't rely so heavily on URI
concepts.

Thanks.

--Ray

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:01:41 UTC