Bug 246241

Summary: Namespace issue with comps
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet>
Component: compsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2007-06-29 14:59:49 UTC 
The namespace given in comps.xml:/comps either must be filled out to contain a
"proper" URI, or the namespace attribute should be dropped.

Pragmatic reasoning:

The blank namespace in comps is interfering with the ability of tools like
xmlstarlet which adhere to XML standards strictly. There is no way to specify an
empty namespace in one of these tools.

Technical reasoning:

The first sentence in section 2.2 of "Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Second Edition)"
states "The empty string, though it is a legal URI reference, cannot be used as
a namespace name.".

This change needs to be made in F7, EL4, and EL5 as well.

It appears that the empty namespace was created in comps-f7.xml.in when
comps-fc7.xml.in was merged with it on April 19, Rev. 1.160.