Re: Multiple XML schema files for a common target namespace (PROV-ISSUE-608)

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> I don't see the prov xml schema  as the way to fully validate a provenance
> trace, but only a way of checking the prov core and the prov extensions defined by
> the WG.

I agree. We should be happy with the PROV-DM being somewhat correctly
represented in PROV-XML - semantically checking if it makes sense is
obviously out of scope for the schema.

It is however true that XML schemas are (at least in industries not
caught up with the REST/JSON/RDF hype!) used as building blocks for
code generation, making WSDL services and defining exchanges between
legal entities, and it would be sad if our schema(s) could not be used
as a good starting point for developing more custom schemas by
third-party extensions.

Therefore I don't think we should treat our extensions any more
special than third-party extensions, beyond reusing the same namespace
(which we know is requested) and providing the helpful all-inclusive
XSD.


Do you plan to counter Stephan's current solution with an alternative?
If so I think we should take it to a vote on Thursday.

-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:44:04 UTC