Expanded NodeID vs. NodeID|OPC UA Standard|Forum|OPC Foundation

Looking for some recommendations. We have just encountered the first server we have ever seen that returns expanded NodeID's in a browse response. Since we have never seen a server that responded this we we never built support into the client to handle the expanded node ID. I am wondering if it is as simple as using "OPC_UA_Server_Softing_HMI.nsuri=OpcUaServer;s=Application.Pack_HMI.Pack_OPC.OPC_Mach_Homing" fir read requests and creating monitored items or if there is more work involved. I could not find specifics in the specificaitons.

I was also wondering if we read the namespace array from the server and go the index from the array for the above specified namespace should the server be able to handle us using the namespace index like "ns=5;s=Application.Pack_HMI.Pack_OPC.OPC_Mach_Homing"

Thanks for any input.