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

[A Stephen McGough]

OK, so I think we have 3 votes for QName and 1 fence sitter. Any other 
votes on this issue?

Otherwise I think we should go for QName.

steve..

Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> William Lee wrote:
>
>> I agreed that Qname type can be used, however, it's been a controversial
>> type to use throughout the history of XSD, because interpretation of 
>> a QName
>> value needs contextual information (the enclosing elements and their 
>> xmlns
>> declaration).
>> <jsdl:JobDefinition ...>
>>     ...
>>     <jsdl:CPUArchitecture>myns:sparc</jsdl:CPUArchitecture>
>>     ...
>> </jsdl:JobDefinition>
>>
>> For the parser, it needs to resolve the "myns" namespace prefix from the
>> enclosing elements in order to deduce whether it's in the jsdl 
>> namespace or
>> others.
>
>
> That's why I wanted it. :^) The aim is to make those extensible
> enumerations where people can add their own elements but must do so in a
> way that won't tread on where we might wish to put our toes in future.
> The other sensible way of doing this is the informal technique used in
> specifications like CIM, where you just have a common prefix to all the
> values that you define. But if you're doing that, you might as well
> formalize it in terms of common XML rules.
>
> In terms of parsing, I think both SAX and DOM have support for making
> this sort of processing easy...?
>
> Donal.
>
>


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