Hi Yonik, >> Using standards enables standard tool development. > > We do use standards... lots of them :-) Let's be a bit more specific > though - I was asking about using a namespace for the point type by > *default*, and in isolation (i.e. the rest of solr xml isn't > namespaced), and if/how that made things easier?
Let's ask a different question -- how does it make things harder? > At first blush it > doesn't really seem to since any tool would need to deal with the Solr > XML response in general. I've got use cases where folks writing APIs in Javascript/Ajax are querying SOLR (as a REST-ful web service) and elements of the response are being dropped into a web page via DHTML. Having the ability to drop tags that include namespaces helps out those folks because they want to have: (a) expected representations using standards they like (GeoRSS is on the list). (b) understanding of the elements they are dropping in (i.e., there is one use case where separately, after dropping in the georss:point tag, the tag definition (e.g., via the namespace at: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#) is looked up and displayed. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
