RE: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: XML Namespace URIs

["Abbie Barbir" <abbieb@nortel.com>]

oops
+1 the wrong e-mail.
abbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher B Ferris [mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:00 AM
> To: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: XML Namespace URIs
> 
> 
> Blech. I hate 50 foot long URI's, it is so unnecessary. 
> Frankly, there's 
> no reason that the 
> namespace URI needs to include the 'committees' path segment. 
> I believe 
> that the new AIR provide
> for the use of a pattern as follows (see sect 7.2 and 7.3):
> 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/[product]/ 
> 
> for a product folder. Also, there is a TC folder which we can use:
> 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/[tcName]/
> 
> We could put the RDDL in either location, hence, it could be 
> the root of 
> our namespace
> tree.  I think that 'wsreliablemessaging' as a value for the 
> [product] 
> name is too long. Maybe
> we could just leverage the [tcName] and have a namespace URIs like:
> 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/[yyyymm]/rm
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/[yyyymm]/rm/policy
> 
> That's a 44 character namespace URI versus a 74 character 
> namespace URI, 
> and 51 versus 67.
> Note that despite the fact that there will be a RDDL document 
> at the end 
> of these URI's, there's no
> need to add a filename with an .html extension. See the 
> current namespace 
> URIs for example.
> 
> I think that the other thing that we want to consider is the 
> versioning 
> strategy for the namespace
> URI as this will inform us as to whether we might choose a 
> namespace URI 
> at the start, that doesn't
> change with every CD. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christopher Ferris
> STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
> email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
> blog: http://webpages.charter.net/chrisfer/blog.html
> phone: +1 508 377 9295
> 
> "Gilbert Pilz" <Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com> wrote on 07/14/2005 12:24:02 AM:
> 
> > Title: XML Namespace URIs
> > Description: We need to decide upon the normative XML 
> namespace URIs 
> that must be used by 
> > implementations of these specifications.
> > Justification: Self-evident.
> > Target: all
> > Type: editorial
> > Proposal: The namespace URIs for WS-RX-defined schemas 
> should be URLs
> that resolve to RDDL 
> > documents that provide information about the schema as well 
> as links 
> > to
> the corresponding specification(s).
> > Per OASIS guidelines, the RDDL documents must be hosted by OASIS.
> Therefore the exact URL values 
> > will need to be co-ordinated with OASIS but, in general, they should
> look something like the following:
> > 
> xmlns:wsrm=?http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-rx/wsrelia
> blemessaging-200507.html?
> > 
> xmlns:wsrmp=?http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-rx/wsrmpo
> licy-200507.html?
> > Note that the ?200507? in the URL is represents the schema 
> version as 
> > a
> date (July, 2005).
> 
>