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Subject: Re: [wsn] [Namespace URIs] Proposal to split the existing namespaces


Thus quoth Fred Carter (~ 11-May-04 3:20 PM ~)...

> Thus quoth Vambenepe, William N (~ 11-May-04 2:39 PM ~)...
> 
>> Actually, "we cannot use this where a URI is expected" is too strong a
>> sentence. But it poses the risk of creating unnecessary hardship and in
>> any case it doesn't improve "resolvability" in the absence of rules to
>> handle content identifiers for XSD and WSDL documents. So I don't see
>> any value for us going there.
> 
> 
> No particular disagreement.  If using the web worked, fine.  If not, 
> that's OK as well -- as noted, just a thought.  Having the ability to 
> have embedded links was the value.
> 
> I know/knew the fragment id's weren't really part of the URI, but they 
> are often used that way.  Indeed there have been specific proposals for 
> interpretations in things like WS-PolicyAttachments, etc., for how such 
> links are to be interpretted, ways to refer to a port within a service 
> within a wsdl file, etc.  Albeit not quite "standard," but convention 
> rules in many of these cases.  I just wanted to explore the possibilities.

(Oops -- went and looked & it wasn't in ws-policyattachments.  But the 
point remains -- was anything linkable/resolvable possible...)
> 
> That said, it's fine the way it is...
> 
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vambenepe, William N Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:33 PM
>>> To: fred.carter@amberpoint.com; wsn@lists.oasis-open.org
>>> Subject: RE: [wsn] [Namespace URIs] Proposal to split the existing 
>>> namespaces
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Fred,
>>>
>>> Fragment identifiers are not part of the URI. They are appended to it.
>>> The "#" character is not allowed in a URI. As a result
>>> http://example.com/hello#world is not a URI. It is the concatenation of
>>> a URI and the "world" content identifier. How to handle the content
>>> identifier is defined differently based on the type of the document at
>>> the URI. We are all familiar with how it is handled when the document is
>>> HTML. I am not aware of any specification describing how to handle it
>>> for a XSD or WSDL document.
>>>
>>> In any case, we cannot use this where a URI is expected.
>>>
>>> See RFC2396 section 4.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> William
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Fred Carter [mailto:fred.carter@amberpoint.com] Sent: Tuesday, 
>>>> May 11, 2004 1:11 PM
>>>> To: Steve Graham
>>>> Cc: wsn@lists.oasis-open.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [wsn] [Namespace URIs] Proposal to split the existing 
>>>> namespaces
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> I think the only concern I had was that we link things to WSN.  If 
>>>> I'm understanding your intent correctly, that's amongst the changes 
>>>> in version 2 of the proposed draft.  So that seems fine.
>>>>
>>>> This one is purely a question.  I have no strong opinion one way or 
>>>> the other.  Just a thought... Since we're going for resolvability of 
>>>> URI's, might it make sense to have things like BaseAction URI's 
>>>> resolve to their sections in the schema?  We appear to be close, in 
>>>> that (say, for subscribe) we are using the schema location with the 
>>>> action name appended
>>>>     
>>>> http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsn/2004/05/WS-BaseNotification/Subscribe
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it would be possible to do something like 
>>>
>>>
>>> change the
>>>
>>>> "/Subscribe" to a "#Subscribe".  It's probably overkill, and, as I 
>>>> said, I don't know who xlink/xptr/anchors work in schemas (or even 
>>>> if...).
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, just a thought in the spirit of 'resolvability'.
>>>>
>>>> /fred
>>>>
>>>> Thus quoth Steve Graham (~ 11-May-04 12:59 PM ~)...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> *Folks:*
>>>>> *In [1] I proposed a mapping from the namespace URI 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> convention used in
>>>>
>>>>> version 1.1 of WS-notification specs to one based on the 
>>>
>>>
>>> OASIS file
>>>
>>>>> naming and related URI namespace conventions.*
>>>>>
>>>>> *The submitted version of WS-Notification used a single URI 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> namespace
>>>>
>>>>> per specification for both the XSD and WSDL.  Given that we 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> are trying
>>>>
>>>>> to adopt a direct mapping from URI to URL for our XSD and 
>>>
>>>
>>> WSDL, we
>>>
>>>>> should change this pattern to having separate URI 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> namespaces for the XSD
>>>>
>>>>> and WSDL.*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Does anyone object to adopting this change in namespace 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> URIs for the
>>>>
>>>>> 0.1 draft of the OASIS work on WS-Notification?*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *[1**]*_http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsn/downl
>>>> oad.php/6710/Proposed%20WS-Notification%20URIs.2.doc_
>>>>
>>>>> sgg
>>>>> ++++++++
>>>>> Steve Graham
>>>>> (919)254-0615 (T/L 444)
>>>>> STSM, On Demand Architecture
>>>>> Member, IBM Academy of Technology
>>>>> <Soli Deo Gloria/>
>>>>> ++++++++
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Fred Carter / AmberPoint, Inc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> mailto:fred.carter@amberpoint.com
>>> tel:+1.510.433.6525 fax:+1.510.663.6301
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Fred Carter / AmberPoint, Inc.

mailto:fred.carter@amberpoint.com
tel:+1.510.433.6525 fax:+1.510.663.6301


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