Re: Referencing meta data elements

[Andreas Hartmann <an...@apache.org>]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi Lenya devs,
>>
>> it would be very convenient to reference meta data elements using a 
>> "combined" name, including namespace URI and element name. But unlike 
>> the qualified names in XML, it should not be necessary to declare a 
>> prefix. Some purposes would be
>>
>> - i18n message keys
>> - search index field names
>>
>>
>> James Clark introduced the notion of "universal names" [1]:
>>
>>   {http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}title
>>
>> Another option would be
>>
>>   title@http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
>>
>> which might be a bit easier to parse.
>>
>> Does someone know an established convention for combining namespaces 
>> and local names? TIA!
> 
> 
> no, but for Yanel we use the notion of James Clark and it works fine so 
> far.

Thanks for the comment - the "universal name" convention also works fine 
with meta data. I'll add this to the documentation as soon as we have 
finished the switch to Lenya.

-- Andreas


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