[jsdl-wg] application profile proliferation

[Joseph Bester]

On Feb 19, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Joseph Bester wrote:
>> I think there are some semantic differences between the various   
>> element definitions.
>
> Yes. That's the point. Isn't it a good thing they're in different
> namespaces? :-)
>

Sort of, but it makes implementation of JSDL-consuming services more  
complicated.

>> Did the group consider having this as a separate extension child  
>> of  the jsdl:Application element (independent of the  
>> POSIXApplication or  HPCProfileApplication)?
>
> No, because (IIRC) that's not (technically) type-compatible. This is
> because we specified that there can only be one xsd:any##other  
> child of
> the JSDL Application element.
>
> Donal.
>

Perhaps my version is an old one, but the schema I've seen has

<xsd:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0"  
maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

in the definition of the Application_Type.

joe