Re: [Simple] Liaison Statement from the Open Mobile Alliance

[Jari Urpalainen <jari.urpalainen at nokia.com>]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:39 +0200, ext Ben Campbell wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Jari Urpalainen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:12 +0200, ext Ben Campbell wrote:
> >> (as SIMPLE co-chair)
> >>
> >> OMA sent a liaison statement to the SIMPLE working group. The
> >> statement's overview reads as follows:
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I looked at the statement, and except the copy-paste bugs of IANA  
> > files
> > from rfc4826, there's a proposal to add a "schemaLocation" attribute  
> > to
> > rls-services schema. This attribute value provides a hint from the
> > author to a processor regarding the location of a schema document.  
> > It is
> > an optional value which may help the validation task. Typically  
> > however,
> > validators have some means to combine multiple schemas (e.g.
> > <http://validate.openlaboratory.net/> does also some magic with  
> > multiple
> > schemas), and as such it has also security implications (if tools e.g.
> > try to fetch some external schemas). So imo, in any sane practical
> > service, you'll disable these hints. So they _can_ exist in specs, but
> > they don't help practical work where you must most likely anyhow tweak
> > with these uris. (and fyi, my preference is to use the registered  
> > urn's
> > which don't much help practical work either)
> >
> 
> Am I correct in assuming the schemaLocation attribute is also not in  
> the version in the RFC? (I guess that would be a tricky thing to put  
> in an RFC due to document lifetime issues.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben.
Right, it is not there, i.e. the rfc is ok. 

br, Jari