Re: [Stox] Review on -presence

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 8/7/13 3:43 PM, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
> 
> On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> On 8/1/13 12:32 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> On 7/30/13 5:33 PM, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> - Using ID-123kdklejd doesn't seem to work as a valid xs:ID,
>>>> TID-1234 does work though, so we could use TID- as the prefix
>>>> for tuple identifiers in examples and such.
>>> 
>>> I will double-check that against the XML specification.
>> 
>> Hmm. Here is what I see in the XML schema datatype specification:
>> 
>> The ·value space· of ID is the set of all strings that ·match· the 
>> NCName production in [Namespaces in XML].
>> 
>> Where the NCName production is defined as follows:
>> 
>> NCName 	::= 	(Letter | '_') (NCNameChar)*
>> 
>> What software are you using for validation? I'm not seeing a
>> constraint that an xs:ID needs to begin with three letters.
>> 
> 
> I tested it with lxml, a Python wrapper for libxml2. I complained
> because 'ID-123' was too ambiguous for an xs:ID. Not sure if it's an
> implementation detail / issue though.

Sounds like it.

In RFC 6120, it's suggested to make the XMPP resourcepart a UUID.
Something like ID-2E855EFA-DA21-48F1-A6EB-18B5231893AC won't trigger
warnings about ambiguity. :-)

Would it help to change some of the examples?

Peter

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