Extensions key prefix

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Wed Mar 14 01:25:42 UTC 2007


On 13-Mar-07, at 6:23 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> Rowan,
>
> If I understand you correctly here, what you are saying is that  
> openid.ns.*
> prefixes work almost identically to XML namespace (xmlns) prefixes,  
> i.e.:

that is where the idea came from :-)

>
> * the prefix is never globally defined by dynamically defined on a
> per-instance basis

... never globally defined *but* is dynamically defined ...

> * thus you don't know what the prefix is in a specific OpenID  
> message until
> you parse the message.


correct -- and good point to call it out as clearly it is not obvious  
to people -- thanks!

-- Dick



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