[ogsa-bes-wg] embedding WS-Name in JSDL doc

[Christopher Smith]

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On 21/7/05 09:26, "A S McGough" <asm at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Although I agree that what Karl has shown is valid in terms of the JSDL
> schema I feel it somewhat goes against the core emphasis of what JSDL
> sets out to achieve. JSDL set out to define a template job description,
> embedding instance information within the document therefore goes
> against the ideal. For instance if a user requests a JSDL document back
> from a BES Service and then wishes to submit the JSDL to another BES
> service it would need to strip this element out before proceeding.
> 
> If I may go back to the situation and ask why the  ActivityName needs to
> be embedded in the JSDL? From what I can see it is to deal with the fact
> that the requester may wish to receive back a number of JSDL documents.
> Thus the requirement is to associate with each JSDL document the
> ActivityName for it. This tag however need not be part of the JSDL
> document itself. For example using the following would be an alternative
> (and in my view) a cleaner solution.
> 
> <bes:JSDLInstance>
>   <bes:ActivityName> ... WS-Name content ... </bes:ActivityName>
>   <jsdl:JobDefinition>
>     ...
>   </jsdl:JobDefinition>
> </bes:JSDLInstance>
> 
> steve..
> 
> Karl Czajkowski wrote:
> 
>> As promised on the call, here's a trivial BES spec. feature
>> suggestion, in psuedo-schema format:
>> 
>>   <bes:ActivityName>..WS-Name content..</bes:ActivityName>
>> 
>> which could be embedded in the JSDL doc in the JobIdentification
>> section for correlation purposes when retrieving JSDL docs from the
>> BES service:
>> 
>> <jsdl:JobDefinition>
>>   <jsdl:JobDescription>
>>      <JobIdentification ...>
>>         <bes:ActivityName>..WS-Name content..</bes:ActivityName>
>>      </JobIdentification>
>>      <Application ...>
>>      ...
>> 
>> this works because JobIdentification allows zero or more
>> <xsd:any##other/> in its schema, e.g. any element that is defined in a
>> namespace other than JSDL's namespace.
>> 
>> karl
>> 
>>  
>> 
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