Re: Proposal: requesting XML records

> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:06:10 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
> From: Andy Powell <a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk>
>
> Why don't you slightly re-word the emboldened proposal text to read
> 
>  Proposed Agreement: To retrieve XML records, supply the XML record
>  syntax object identifier (1.2.840.10003.5.109.10) as the record
>  syntax, and supply a globally unique identifier of the desired XML
>  definition as the element set name.
> 
> and then add
> 
>  Recommended best practice is to use a URI as the globally unique
>  identifier.  In general, the URI should not be the locator of an
>  XML schema definition or DTD.

This seems like a good, honest statement of what we're actually trying
to say.  My only change would be to say "the URI need not ..." instead
of "should not".  I don't think the proposal need care either way.

> It would be good to explicitly state that the ESN URI need not be an
> 'http' URI (because all the examples you use are http URIs and this
> might confuse people?).

Yes -- so a non-http example would also help.  (If indeed there _are_
any non-http URIs :-)

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