[DFDL-WG] Namespace URI and trailing slash convention

[Steve Hanson]

Mike, 

This was the subject of a WG call (last year maybe) when it was noted that 
the spec was inconsistent on this. The decision was to go with what we 
have now, with trailing slash. If I recall we looked for precedents in XML 
and found some with and some without.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh at uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848



From:   Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl at gmail.com>
To:     dfdl-wg at ogf.org
Date:   28/11/2011 17:05
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] Namespace URI and trailing slash convention
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces at ogf.org



The v1.0 spec says the namespace for dfdl ends with a trailing slash.

This is non-standard at least inconsistent with the XML Schema namespace 
identifiers, whose URIs do not end with a slash.

Do we want to take an errata and be conformant with XML Schema conventions 
here?

I think the world is not fully consistent on this. There are online 
discussions about some SOAP-protocol related URIs having trailing slash.

Unfortunately, this matters because things that compare XML carefully will 
distinguish a namespace having a trailing slash, and not having one. The 
rules of comparison require detecting this difference.

...mikeb

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