[glue-wg] XML rendering style

[stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk]

glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:glue-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On
> Behalf Of david.meredith at stfc.ac.uk said:
> Yes, after being introduced to your schema in the last WG meeting I
> think the flattened style may be preferable, especially for rendering
> GLUE entities that can exist standalone and have their own lifetime
> that is not tied to an associated/parent entity,

Some objects may simply not be published by a given information provider - for example if an implementation publishes Datastore objects but not StorageManager you may have a problem if Datastore is required to be a child of StorageManager.

  For the LDAP rendering we made the objects self-contained - all references can be followed either by querying for an ID or a ForeignKey. If objects don't exist then references may not resolve but it isn't intrinsically inconsistent.

Stephen

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