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Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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>> What if that metadata format changes later or is extended by |
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>> additional required entries? |
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> How about using the power of xml and version the schemas? As long as the |
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> metadata-file specifies the respective dtd/xsd/relaxng you know exactly |
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> how to validate (and parse) it and may apply a xsl-trafo if necessary to |
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> convert it to a new format on the fly. As long as you keep using xml you |
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> can then change the complete format in a new schema version. |
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We are version the schemas already. My point is that we would need to |
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wait for the overlay maintainers once again to update their metadata. |
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Transforming does not save us as we are missing new data. |
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Sebastian |
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