[jsdl-wg] Version 1.0 of the XSD Schema for JSDL

[A Stephen McGough]

Donal,

Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> A Stephen McGough wrote:
>
>> Attached is the XSD Schema defined at the face-to-face meeting held 
>> in London on the 17-19th November 2004. This schema should be read in 
>> conjunction with the JSDL draft document that came out of this 
>> meeting and is available on GridForge.
>>
>> As always please try out the schema and let the list know of your 
>> experiences. We'd be particularly interested in those people who try 
>> to describe jobs they normally use vendor DRM systems for. What 
>> extensions do you require to describe your jobs and how easy is it to 
>> describe the jobs.
>
>
> First off, this is all absolutely great. So I'm just going to nit-pick
> at what you've done. :^D

Nit-picking is what will make the schema much better.

>
> Thinking about what was said at the F2F and reading the XSD spec
> carefully, I suspect that we really want to be using xsd:QName in many
> places where we're using xsd:token right now (with the names we define
> probably being in the same namespace as the elements, either that or a
> separate namespace for such tokens.)

What is the difference between xsd:QName and xsd:NMTOKEN? We've changed 
things over to xsd:NMTOKEN. It's easy to change to xsd:QName but I think 
we need to know why.

> In particular, the following types probably need to derive from QName:
>   operator, ApplicationTypeEnumeration, FileSystemTypeEnumeration,
>   CreationFlagEnumeration, LimitTypeEnumeration
>
> The types ProcessorArchitectureEnumeration and
> OperatingSystemTypeEnumeration should be OK coming from xsd:token, and
> their values may contain (single) spaces. In terms of correspondence of
> these terms with CIM:
>
>   P.A.E. ought to allow the defined set of string values that correspond
>   to the defined CIM_Processor.Family values (*not* the numeric forms)
>   but the detail in CIM is probably counter-productive for most apps.

We have them in now - so no more work (for me anyway). If we've missed 
any could people send the ones missed to the list. To make my life easy 
could you send the items needed to be added and not references to documents!

>   O.S.T.E. is the defined set of string values that correspond to the
>   defined CIM_OperatingSystem.OSType values (*not* the numeric forms).

Ditto.

> These were all taken based on the preliminary version of CIM 2.9, and
> the URL to reference is http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/ (there are
> also a lot of semi-correspondences through the rest of the resources,
> but CIM tends to describe the system whereas we're describing a request,
> so it is better to keep them separate.) Curiously, no other types that
> we've identified can be grounded in CIM.
>
> Also, rangeValue could derive from xsd:token and not just xsd:string so
> we could pick up the normalization rules.

Hmm, but then people couldn't use spaces - is this going to cause people 
problems? I tend to write lists "2, 5, 6". Could easily ditch the spaces 
thoug. Also can you have commas in xsd:tokens? Thoughts please folks.

> The various kinds of Units enumerations perhaps should derive from
> NCName? Either that or we should track how the UR-WG did it, even if we
> disagree with their approach.

They are now derived from xsd:NMToken.

>
> Donal.
>

steve..

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