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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