Discovery Change Proposal-9

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DCP-9: Identifying Version of ESIP Discovery Conformance

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1. Submitted on: 2012-08-21
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Description

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Problem Addressed

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Proposed Solution

(1) The ESIP Discovery Version with which a provider complies would be identified by declaring an ESIP namespace within the root element of the document, i.e.: a) the <feed> element for Atom responses b) the <OpenSearchDescription> element for OpenSearch Description documents

(2) The namespace prefix shall by convention be "esipdiscovery".

(3) The namespace URI shall be http://commons.esipfed.org/ns/discovery/<version>/.

(4) Thus, the opening element for an ESIP-compliant atom feed may look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:esip="http://commons.esipfed.org/ns/discovery/1.2/">

(5) The namespace URI will be dereferencible to the text describing the ESIP discovery conventions for that version.

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