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@uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848
From: Mike Beckerle
To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org
Date: 28/11/2011 17:05
Subject: [DFDL-WG] Namespace URI and trailing slash convention
Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@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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