[Dev] Proposal: simplify parcel XML namespaces

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:45 PM 6/24/2005 -0700, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>+1 and -1
>
>+1 because as it stands now (pje correct me), 3rd party parcels also
>live under the "http://osafoundation.org/parcels" namespace umbrella,
>which doesn't really make sense. For example, if I implement a parcel
>whose package is morgen.myparcel, its namespace name would be "http:// 
>osafoundation.org/parcels/morgen/myparcel".  So I am in favor of
>dropping the "osafoundation.org/parcels" part.
>
>-1 because I think libxml2 won't be happy about the "parcel:" scheme,
>but I would have to experiment.

I already did the experiment; implementing support for a "parcel:" 
namespace shortcut in application.Parcel is only four lines of 
code.  Getting rid of the http: cruft would take a bit more work, though.


>Let's just define data in python and be done with it.  :-)

One step at a time.  :)