Gabriel Roldán ha scritto:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 04:54:47 pm Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> Generally in cases like these, i will insert a "leniency hack" if we
>> used to support the behavior, because technically its a regression.
> But you mean a "configurable" hack? like to enable it from the ui or 
> something? or just a silent hack?

I would like it as default behaviour, and become picky when the cite
hacks are turned on.

>> I am also usually for being lenient with xml requests in general. But if
>> there is strong opposition to this I could go either way.
> Not a strong opposition but a bad smell. Its a regression because we used to 
> be tolerant with the validity of the xml requests we received, or because we 
> used to be dumber at parsing?
> It smells bad because that request is a valid xml, its just saying the 
> namespace for the "states" type is the request default one, so going through 
> the request and assuming that someone using the request default namespace for 
> the typename is wrong is a double edged knife...

That's what we used to do, so we're breaking existing clients that were
coded against geoserver < 1.6.x (like udig). This is a regression in my 
book.

Also, how is it that the default namespace of xml elements gets 
inherited by the value of an element? Is this standard behaviour?

Cheers
Andrea


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