Re: [xri] Proposed XRD schema

[Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM,  <njones@ouno.com> wrote:
> How would xsd:any work?

Libraries would wander through the XML looking for the appropriate
Link element based on Rel and ResourceType.  Once they found it, they
would return the entire Link element, and application code can then do
further investigation.

The schemas for individual Link types would include whatever XML
elements are necessary to supply interesting metadata.  For example:

<Link priority="10">
       <Rel> http://some.URI.that.indicates.relationsip.is.self.or.sub.service.com
</Rel>
       <ResourceType> http://spec.openid.net/auth/2.0/ux/popup </ResourceType>
       <height>500px</height>
       <width>450px</width>
</Link>

I'm completely appalled by the notion of encoding that kind of
metadata as additional Rel or ResourceType or query string elements.
We've got XML parsers.  We should use them.

Cheers,
Brian