Re: Comment from Ajith Ranabahu

Dear Ajith,

the SAWSDL WG tracks a Last Call issue 13 [1] from you about annotating
external schemas.

The WG has discussed a number of options and finally we decided to add
section 2.4 External Annotation [2], which informally describes two ways
(XSLT pre-processing and RDF with WSDL and Schema component designators)
that can be used for external annotations. Doing anything more was
judged to be out of scope for our specification.

We believe that this resolution should satisfy your concern. Please let
us know by Jan 15 if you disagree with our disposition of the issue.

Best regards,
Jacek Kopecky

[1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/issues/LC-20060928.html#x13
[2] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/spec/SAWSDL.html#external

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 16:01 -0500, Jacek Kopecky wrote:
> Hi all, 
> this is a comment from Ajith Ranabahu, will become Last Call issue 13.
> The use case here is that one might want to import a third-party XML
> Schema and annotate it using a private ontology, therefore Ajith asks
> for external annotations.
> Best regards,
> Jacek
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [Fwd: SAWSDL Spec is now frozen for F2F]
> Date: 	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:39:54 -0500
> From: 	Ajith Ranabahu <ajith.ranabahu@gmail.com>
> To: 	Amit Sheth <apsheth@bellsouth.net>
> CC: 	DOUGLAS CARL BREWER <twisted@uga.edu>, Karthik Gomadam 
> <karthik.gomadam@gmail.com>, Kunal Verma <kunal.verma1@gmail.com>
> References: 	<4551E6A5.6020206@bellsouth.net>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> One concern I have is that the schema annotations such as simpletype
> and complextype annotations, may limit the usability of certian
> schemas. I think I've mentioned this to Dr Sheth once but for the
> benifit of others here is an explanation. This is not a *problem* per
> se but it seems that to me that if the spec suggests something, more
> like a recommended approach on this, it would be better.
> 
> The usual practice in the industry is to include/import schemas into
> the WSDL documents rather than including them inline. An orgnization
> may use  a variety of schemas that are reused in many webservices with
> different semantics. This gets complicated further if standard schemas
> are included (Say from W3C) which can be used for many different
> purposes with different semantics. One can always find a workaround ,
> the easiest being copying the schema and annotating the copy , but
> that would mean a considerable effort for  porting existing services
> (I guess the thinking behind the SAWSDL approach is to minimize the
> effort to port existing applications)
> If we can come up with an alternative approach that allows the
> specification of model references without actually putting the
> modereference inside the schema type (the original approach will be
> also valid but we suggest an alternate approach also that allows
> 'external annotations' that can be used to deal with imports and
> includes easily)
> One way I can thing of this is to have schema level modelreference
> entries that has both the Qname and the reference.
> 
> Ajith
> 
> On 11/8/06, Amit Sheth <apsheth@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Doug, Ajith:
> > If you have comments I would love to hear them.
> > Amit
> >
> >
>

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