[Rpm-metadata] xml update

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:58:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Ok,
>   I tried just doing a mock up from what I mentioned last night.
> 
> so a file might look something like this:
> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/metadata/rpm-metadata3.xml
> 
> let me know if that fits for most folks, if so - I'll write the code for
> the rpm side and we can work on defining the file list file and the misc
> file formats.

  Looks pretty good to me, though I have a few points to raise:
    - I would expect all the common tags to be in a namespace
      <metadata xmlns="...">
      no idea where this namespace should be anchored though
    - The rpm namespace should be anchored in rpm.org IMHO
      e.g. xmlns:rpm="http://rpm.org/namespace/metadata/1.0/"
      I would also put it on the metadata tag to avoid 
      declaring it multiple time (though locating it on the
      format is fine too), globally declared namespaces 
      tend to ease human reading
    - currently the entry and version tags are in no namespace or
      would be in the default namespace if there was one, is that
      on-purpose ? Is it really shared between formats ?
    - the location / xml:base / href looks okay with the exception
      that this would really mean that the package indexed was
      file://rpm/rpm/RPMS/noarch/yum-2.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
      I'm afraid this might reflect a misunderstanding ;-)
    - it's a bit of a shame that the provides and requires really
      can't be shared, but well maybe that reflect the differences
      in semantic of both formats :-\

Daniel

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