SP metadata namespace

[Peter Schober]

Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users <users at shibboleth.net> [2023-12-18 19:51 CET]:
> I've done some InterWeb searching and still do not fully understand the
> differences, advantages or disadvantages between the two:
> 
> xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
> xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"

FWIW, I often put them *both* into the EntitiesDescriptor (or
EntityDescriptor) of metadata I'm working with to avoid having to
normalize all elements' namespaces.

(Of course you still want to learn about and understand XML namespaces.)

-peter