Re: APPEL and the dataschema element

But in the previous scenario, this was not necessary - the custom data
schemas could simply be parsed out of the input.
So is this is a change which needs to be noted in the APPEL spec?
Also - here is another question. When it comes to "category expansion"
(APPEL spec 5.4.6) , is it possible that the data-group element in the APPEL
ruleset could refer to an inline or external schema which would then be
needed to expand the category?
Or are you saying that
a. APPEL rulesets never include any of the data schemas they refer to
b. Category expansion can only ever take place over the p3p base data
schema?

Thanks

Giles



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorrie Cranor" <lorrie@research.att.com>
To: "Giles Hogben" <giles.hogben@jrc.it>; "p3pdev" <www-p3p-dev@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: APPEL and the dataschema element


> I  believe that if APPEL engines are to handle custom
> dataschemas, then they must take stand-alone DATASCHEMA
> elements as input, in addition to their other inputs. The
> software that calls the APPEL engine would be responsible
> for fetching the DATASCHEMA from wherever it might be located
> and making it available to the APPEL engine.
>
> Lorrie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Giles Hogben" <giles.hogben@jrc.it>
> To: "p3pdev" <www-p3p-dev@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:37 AM
> Subject: APPEL and the dataschema element
>
>
> Hi,
> I have a question about how the inclusion of custom data schema elements
> fits into the APPEL specification.
>
> If a <DATA> element in an APPEL ruleset is to include elements outside of
> the P3P data schema, then should it also include the schema it is
referring
> to as an inline schema.
> If so, then it seems that the most recent change to the P3P spec causes a
> conflict here. The p3p spec has just changed to state that DATASCHEMA
> elements should be children of the POLICIES element. But APPEL at present
> can only work at the level of single policies, so it cannot express the
same
> relationship.
> If not, then could somebody clarify what the policy is on use of custom
data
> elements wrt APPEL
>
> Thanks
>
> Giles Hogben
>
>

Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 11:16:18 UTC