hello list,
I noticed that some CSW operations have an optional parameter NAMESPACE. This concerns DescribeRecord, GetRecords, and Harvest.
GeoNetwork completely ignores this parameter.
It seems to me that to comply with the specification, we should not just completely ignore it. But maybe I’m wrong.
OGC 07-006 describes the parameter like this:
keyword:
NAMESPACE
data type and value:
List of Character String, comma separated
Used to specify namespace(s) and their prefix(es)
Format is xmlns([prefix=]namespace-url). If prefix is not specified, then this is the default namespace.
optionality and use:
One (Optional)
Include declarations for each namespace used in a TypeName
The NAMESPACE parameter contains the same information as the xmlns attributes which may be used to define and bind namespaces in XML encoding.
Any ideas ? Do we ignore it on purpose ?
Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman