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 <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> 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 -- Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair Tel: 781-330-0412 -- dfdl-wg mailing list dfdl-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/dfdl-wg Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU