Rant: XML Name Spaces
What's the point of using a URL for the namespace of an XML document if that URL does not resolve to an actual description of the schema?
Cases in point:
http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006
http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/sps/2005/WSRP/Configuration
http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
etc, etc, (etc - ad nauseam).
Compare that to:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ - it even has a comment!
Labels: microsoft, programming, random, rant
2 Comments:
XML Namespaces are just supposed to be unique. Sure, you could put a document at that URL describing the namespace. There's no requirement that be the case though.
By
Anonymous, at Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:47:00 PM
Continued rant:
Well, duh!
My rant is about the enormous waste of an opportunity to actually provide useful documentation about the schema in question.
By
Oskar Austegard, at Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:07:00 PM
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