Thanks for the detailed explanation! I understand now. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:09 PM > To: Slide Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: Semi-colon stored with namespace name in > properties table? > > > Warwick Burrows wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm wondering why the ':' character is stored in the > namespace field > > of the properties table. Ie. my namespace names are all stored as > > "DAV:". The ":" is just a separator between the namespace > name and the > > rest of the identifier so why is it stored as part of the > namespace? > > Or am I doing something wrong -- although everything is > working just > > fine as far as having WebFolders recognizing properties > that are being > > stored in the table so I wouldn't think the latter is true. > > > > I also noticed that in the Slide webdav client Qname class that the > > "toString" method explicitly adds a ":" in the String it > returns so my > > properties are displayed as "DAV::displayname" by this class. > > > > Thanks, > > Warwick > > > Warwick, > > My understanding is that Webdav properties were designed around the > model used for XML namespaces - but this happened before the XML > namespace spec got finalised. So there are a few things that > are a bit > strange... > > An XML name consists of 3 things: the local name, the > namespace, and the > namespace prefix. So, in a name like "DAV:href", the local name is > "href", the namespace prefix is "DAV", and (and this is the > weird bit) > the namespace is "DAV:". > > "Modern" usage of XML namespaces would generally give you a namespace > that looks something like (I'm just making this one up, it's not > actually used) "http://www.webdav.org/namespaces/dav"; - and it's that > that's equivalent to the "DAV:" used in webdav. > > The namespace prefix itself is completely irrelevant - you can use > "Warwick" instead of "DAV" in your client if you feel like it :-) > > Slide is actually storing the namespace itself (which is correct. The > namespace is what matters.), so storing the colon is right. It's just > confusing because of use of "DAV:" as an actual namespace. > > The 'toString()' method on QName is presumably (I haven't > looked at that > class in a long time) just a debugging aid - if it's giving you > "namespace:localname" as a result, you shouldn't be displaying it > anywhere - this would mean that a property in my hypothetical > namespace > above would be displayed as > "http://www.webdav.org/namespaces/dav:propertyname";, which is > definately > wrong. > > Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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