[Rpm-metadata] take 3 (or is it 4) whatever :)

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:04:47AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> I read this - and all it defines is a nice way of isolating out the
> stuff that is not in the global namespace.
> 
> as you mentioned on irc:
> 
> <common stuff>
>   <special stuff>
>   </special stuff>
> </common stuff>
> 
> if we do that then it'd be handy to have a unique package-type
> identifier somewhere in the <common> area so if the format is not one
> you know about you can stop parsing.
> 
> so something like:
> <metadata xmlns=commonnamespaceurl>
> <package type="rpm">
>   <common entries here/>
>   <special xmlns=rpm-only-ns>
>    <rpm-onlystuff here/>
>   </special>
> </package>

  </metadata> :-)

  yep, that's how it should be done in my opinion,

Daniel

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