Re: Comment from Ajith Ranabahu

Hi,
Yes. This is seems to be a satisfiable solution.

Thanks

Ajith

On 1/3/07, Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org> wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>


-- 
Ajith Ranabahu

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