Re: [VCARDDAV] How to encode X-Properties in XML?

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 31 March 2010 12:15 UTC

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On 3/31/10 2:36 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 30.03.2010 23:47, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
>>>> No.  I'm suggesting that we put these extensions in a new namespace,
>>>
>>> "DAV:" perhaps? ;-)
>>
>> Not funny in several directions at once.  Nicely done.
>>
>> (Note to those who don't get the important one of the jokes, DAV: is a
>> prefix, not a namespace.)
>> ...
> 
> Actually, it's both (*). (Kids, don't do this at home).
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
> (*) I wasn't around back then; I think this was caused by the initial
> WebDAV development overlapping with the design of XML namespaces; there
> are some more funny things in appendices of RFC 2518.

The same is true of the early Jabber community. We have namespaces like
"jabber:client" and even "vcard-temp"...

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0054.html

Peter

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