Custom URI schemes & KDE

[David Faure]

Please make sure to state in the document that those uri schemes are
for e.g. XML documents and applications, rather than for KIO [which uses
something like a prefix rather than a full namespace, in fact, in the xml sense].

If we're talking about XML, then what's the problem with doing it using w3c-like urls?
For instance in the OpenDocument support in KOffice, when we need to add
an attribute or element that is specific to koffice, we use the "koffice:" prefix,
and it maps to the following namespace: http://www.koffice.org/2005/

This could very well be "tag:kde.org,2005:KOffice:OpenDocument" instead,
which indeed looks a bit more like OpenDocument's own namespaces like
"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0"
(Any reason why we should use tag: instead of urn:? Just wondering what's the difference)

Sorry for bringing KIO into the discussion. It was certainly a bad example of
where to apply such uri schemes; in particular because user-friendlyness
matters there (so short prefixes are needed), unlike in XML documents.

I agree with the use of tag: urns in xml documents, if you're saying this is
the recommended way. Too late for koffice though :(

David.