[CITE-Forum] Fwd: namespace problem in CITE WFS 1.1.0

[Arthur Liu]

Hi  Richard,

Thanks for your reply. 

Just confirm this with you to make sure I understand the spec. 
Does this mean that the WFS "publisher" could specify a namespace URL and a default prefix for the data source or schema, and the WMS "user" or "client" can change the prefix by the Namespace  parameter?

Regards,
Arthur

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Martell [mailto:rmartell at galdosinc.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 12:26 AM
To: Luis Bermudez; Arthur Liu
Cc: cite-forum at lists.opengeospatial.org
Subject: RE: [CITE-Forum] Fwd: namespace problem in CITE WFS 1.1.0



Never assume a namespace prefix for a given namepace name (an absolute URI)--it is an arbitrary NCName as Luis pointed out, and it may change from one request to the next as specified in the appropriate namespace declaration.

e.g.
xmlns:tns="http://cite.opengeospatial.org/gmlsf"

As for GetFeature requests using the GET method, the namespace bindings are provided by the "namespace" query parameter (see WFS 1.1, Table 7).


The following requests are equivalent, and a conforming WFS must respond in an identical manner (some params omitted for brevity):

request=GetFeature&
typename=tns:PrimitiveGeoFeature&
namespace=xmlns(tns=http://cite.opengeospatial.org/gmlsf)&
maxFeatures=10

request=GetFeature&
typename=ns2:PrimitiveGeoFeature&
namespace=xmlns(ns2=http://cite.opengeospatial.org/gmlsf)&
maxFeatures=10

request=GetFeature&
typename=PrimitiveGeoFeature&
namespace=xmlns(http://cite.opengeospatial.org/gmlsf)&
maxFeatures=10


--
Richard

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> Sent: Friday, 10 September, 2010 06:30
> To: Arthur Liu
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> Subject: Re: [CITE-Forum] Fwd: namespace problem in CITE WFS 1.1.0
> 
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Arthur Liu wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Luis. Your information is really helpful, and I
> will add some logic to check the prefix and make sure it's not started 
> with a number.
> > 
> > I still have one concern about the namespace URL and
> prefix.  Can user specify any URL as namespace and any
> text(NCName) as prefix?
> 
> A schema namespace URL can be any URL as far as I know. Also you can 
> create any prefix (NCName valid) for any namespace URL. Even these 
> prefixes can change among instances. Just be sure that the XML 
> instances validate against the Schema.
> 
> > and is that OK that we just to make sure the namespace URLs
> and prefixes are unique if they come from different data sources or 
> schemas?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> Luis
> 
> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
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