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Subject: Issue - 165 - clarification of the default NS URI for expression and query language

From: ws-bpel issues list editor<peter.furniss@choreology.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:20:29 +0100

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Issue - 165 - clarification of the default NS URI for expression and query language

Status: received
Date added: 23 Sep 2004
Categories: Syntax and validation, Related standards
Date submitted: 23 September 2004
Submitter: Alex Yiu
Description:

Currently, http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116 is used as the default value of both expression language and query language, which represents XPath 1.0.

In order for us to make use of XPath 1.0 within BPEL, the BPEL spec needs to define additional semantics for the cross-language bindings. Those details are actually specific to BPEL language in a sense. Strictly speaking, it is not appropriate to "hijack" the W3C namespace for our own use.

(This was raised by Chris Keller in the course of issue 89 : Handling Unrecognized Query/Expression Languages discussion at the face-to-face today)
Submitter's proposal:

Replace the following text in BPEL spec:

The default value for this attribute is XPath 1.0, represented by the URI of the XPath 1.0 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.

with:

The default value for this attribute is: "urn:oasis:names:tc:wsbpel:2.0:sublang:xpath1.0", which represents the usage of XPath 1.0 within WS-BPEL 2.0. The URI of the corresponding XPath 1.0 specification is: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.