Media Types review for application/simple-filter+xml

[Hisham Khartabil]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Scott Hollenbeck wrote:

> Two comments.  The first is on the namespace registration template  
> found in
> section 8.2.  It says:
>
> "This section registers a new XML namespace, as per guidelines in URN
> document [4]."  [4] is:
>
> [4]   Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", RFC 3688, January 2004.
>
> There are two problems with the above.
>
> 1. 3688 isn't really a URN document.  It describes procedures to  
> register
> URNs, but it is better described as the "IETF XML Registry".

Ok.

>
> 2. Section 3.2 of 3688 describes what gets registered when registering  
> an
> XML namespace.  It says "XML Namespaces ... are named by a URI.  They  
> have
> no real, machine-parsable representation".  Yet the template includes a
> chunk of XML to be registered.  It's not needed, so why is it  
> included?  All
> that needs to be registered is the  
> urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:simple-filter URN.

That's how I've seen it done. Check out

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3858.txt
and
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-iscomposing 
-03.txt (in author's 48 hours)

>
> Second comment: the schema in section 6 includes several elements and
> attributes that allow extensibility, including "<xs:anyAttribute
> namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>" and "<xs:any
> namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="unbounded"/>".  I don't see any text in the document  
> describing
> just how these extension elements and attributes are supposed to be  
> used,
> though.  You really should add some text to describe the extensibility
> framework.  What's allowed?  What isn't?  What needs to be done to  
> avoid
> namespace collisions and version conflicts?

Will add some text.

Thanks,
Hisham

>
> -Scott-
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hisham Khartabil [mailto:hisham.khartabil at telio.no]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:21 AM
>> To: ietf-types at alvestrand.no
>> Cc: Ted Hardie; Robert Sparks
>> Subject: Media Types review for application/simple-filter+xml
>>
>> The SIMPLE Working Group requests a Media Type review for the
>> following new type:
>>
>> - application/simple-filter+xml
>>
>> This is intended for the IETF tree, and specified in section
>> 8.1 of
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-filter-format
>> -04.txt
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hisham Khartabil
>> SIMPLE WG Co-chair
>