Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard XML

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Sun, 07 March 2010 18:14 UTC

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:15:05 -0500
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard XML
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Hi Filip,

--On March 6, 2010 7:36:51 AM +0100 Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>> Then it would be better to use different XML namespaces for the
>> properties, parameters, and values instead of prefixing their tag names,
>> don't you think?
>
> I don't think Cyrus was ever talking about *tag names*, just the
> schema element names. See this example taken from iCalendar XML:
>
>    property-created = element created {
>        element parameters { empty }?,
>        value-date-time
>    }
>
> "property-created" is the schema element name, "created" is a tag name.

Yes, that is precisely what I was trying to get at - sorry if it was not 
clear from my original post. All I care about is that the schema 
element/definition name be prefixed to avoid naming problems. The actual 
element tag names are fine being a direct character for character match 
with their vCard counterparts.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo