[DFDL-WG] issue 145 - name dfdl:elementAlias

[Steve Hanson]

Mike

I had suggested elementAlias for exactly the two reasons you mention :)

If we add xs:any support in the future then we don't need to add a new 
property, and it makes refactoring a choice into a wildcard, and vice 
versa, straightforward.  I am ok changing the name but I don't think the 
name should contain 'choice'.

With SAP IDocs, the element name is the content of the tag field.

Regards

Steve Hanson
Architect, Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
IBM SWG, Hursley, UK
smh at uk.ibm.com
tel:+44-1962-815848



From:   Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl at gmail.com>
To:     dfdl-wg at ogf.org
Date:   03/04/2012 15:42
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] issue 145 - name dfdl:elementAlias
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces at ogf.org



About the name dfdl:elementAlias

It suggests that this is another element name, and in other contexts
than a choice it might be used as well, and in addition it suggests
that the dfdl:choiceBranchRef can evaluate to the element name, or to
this alias.

I think the definition of all this behavior should be narrower, and
the names should suggest this.

dfdl:choiceBranchRef
dfdl:choiceBranchID

seem like the right pairing. A choice branch ref can refer to exactly
and only the choice branch ID, never the element name, and this ID is
used only for choice branch ref purposes.

...mikeb

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