Currently we use http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/ns/csdl/4.0 as the namespace URL for the EDM namespace.
As CSDL consists of EDMX plus EDM, it is confusing to have the name of the whole as an infix in the namespace for a part.
Currently we use http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/ns/csdl/4.0 as the namespace URL for the EDM namespace.
As CSDL consists of EDMX plus EDM, it is confusing to have the name of the whole as an infix in the namespace for a part.
Note that
ODATA-204still questions whether we should include the version in the namespace url, which can be considered orthogonally to this issue; if we remove the version we will do so consistently across the namespaces (or call out the specific namespaces that should not be versioned).