Interesting that you never thought of RDDL, as it seems to be a useful indirection mechanism for pertinent resources related to XML schemas. Drawing a parallel to web services, I tend to think that it could serve as a poor-man's service registry for retrievable resources related to services (stored in a repository or not).
Thanks, Scott ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] URI for targetNamespace Attribute Value Direct, never thought of RDDL. But don't expect many people to actually use the link. Putting a decent search engine on the repository remains the most important thing. Steve On 17 July 2010 03:31, Tsao, Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Steve, Thanks for the reply! Do you use the URL for the targetNamespace of your WSDL to link directly to the formal documentation in your service repository, or through some kind of intermediary such as RDDL<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDDL>? Scott ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:17 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] URI for targetNamespace Attribute Value You can use it in the same way to link from the technical interface (WSDL) to the formal documentation for the interface. I've used it to link into the service repository documentation set. However as with the XSD URI I've found that probably only 1 in 20 people actually find and use the link. Steve On 14 July 2010 14:51, Tsao, Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: As I understand, it is a preferred practice to use URL instead of URN for the targetNamespace attribute value of an XML schema. And the primary reason is that one could use the XSD namespace URL to document the use of an XML schema. See: http://xsd.stylusstudio.com/2009Sep/post01000.htm However, I wonder if this practice should also be applied to the targetNamespace attribute value of a WSDL document. I don't see as strong a reason to do so as for XML schema. What do you think? Thanks, Scott Tsao The Boeing Company
