[jsdl-wg] Teleconfence minutes - 11 March 2009

[Donal K. Fellows]

Andreas Savva wrote:
> Minutes uploaded to gridforge.
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15568
> 

Here, somewhat late, is my suggested wording for the final paragraph of 
§2.3:

   Implicit type casting is permitted of a value of one Simple XSD type
   to another Simple XSD type values, subject to the condition that the
   value MUST be syntactically legal in both types (e.g. casting "42"
   from xsd:integer to xsd:string). With Complex XSD content, the
   replaced node MUST be an Element node or Processing Instruction node
   and the replacement MUST NOT be an Attribute node or Document node. In
   both cases, the resulting document MUST be a valid document (according
   to the XML Schema of the document and any adopted extensions) after
   all substitutions have been performed; if the result is not valid, the
   JSDL Job Template document MUST be rejected.

OK, it's a bit wordier than before, but I had to write it like that to 
allow the replacement of a single element with multiple elements which 
is a feature I'd like to continue to permit. I'd have also written it 
just to do upcasting to string (for simple content) except that that 
would cause other problems when the target value is not a string in the 
schema (like many places in JSDL).

Donal.