A Message Type may contain a simple message identifier or a message type path when defining multipart messages. When defining multipart messages the Message Type is combined with the Message Type Prefix message set property. A message type path may also be specified when using the FolderBitStream option of the ESQL ASBITSTREAM function and CREATE ... PARSE statement.
The format of a simple message type is {namespace-uri}:name where 'name' is the name of the message.
The same name can occur in more than one namespace. To specify that a name is to be qualified with a specific namespace, the name must be prefixed with the namespace within the Message Type. The namespace must be the full URI specification and be enclosed in braces.
For example a Message Type with a single name would be entered as:
{http://www.ibm.com/space}name
and with a message type path
{http://www.ibm.com/space}id/.../{http://www.ibm.com/spacem}idm
If no namespace is specified for a name, the first match found in the model is used. Therefore, if namespaces are not enabled, or a name is unique within a message set, the namespace need not be specified in the Message Type. If a name is not unique, you should specify the namespace to ensure that the correct match is made in the model.