Media Types review for application/simple-filter+xml

[Scott Hollenbeck]

> > 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)

I'm aware of other instances like the ones you've pointed out.  Frankly,
though, I think they're wrong.  There's nothing in 3688 that talks about
registering any XML as part of registering an XML namespace.  It's not
needed, so it should be removed.

-Scott-