[wix-devs] Simplifying WiX xmlns values

[Sean Hall]

Actually I think wix:4:core is valid, only the first part must start with a
letter.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 11:24 AM Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the namespace is required to be a URI. So while it would be nice
> to do those I don't think we can. We could do wix4:core or wix4://Core or
> WixToolset:Ext:Util or WixToolset:Util.wixext. But we couldn't do
> wix:4:core since each element must begin with a letter.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rob Mensching via wix-devs <
> wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
>> I can *never* remember the xmlns URIs for the various extensions. They
>> are better in v4 but after writing the extension cache WIP, I wondered
>>
>>                 What if we used the extension name as the xmlns value
>> instead of a URI?
>>
>> The result would be:
>>
>> <Wix xmlns="..." xmlns:util="WixToolset.Util.wixext">
>>
>> And on the command-line you'd have:
>>
>> wix.exe build -ext WixToolset.Util.wixext
>>
>> *And* then instead of having to remember the default WiX Toolset
>> namespace (can you type it in without looking?) we could use just
>> "WixToolset", so:
>>
>> <Wix xmlns="WixToolset" xmlns:util="WixToolset.Util.wixext">
>>
>> I'm open to other suggestions for the base xmlns, but "WixToolset" is a
>> pretty good start.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>   Rob Mensching
>>   CEO
>>   FireGiant
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