Re: [cmis] Namespace proposal and complex properties with lists

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2009, at 23:18, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Hm,
>> this puts property structure into the identifier. Is this really a 
>> good idea?
>> As CMIS doesn't have residual properties, would that mean that all of 
>> these properties would need to be defined on the document type?
> 
> As I mentioned, this is just syntactic extension so that parsers don't 
> have to be rewritten *if* we later go that route, in extensions or CMIS 2.
> 
> As I said:
>> This sidesteps the problem of having these properties actually 
>> available in object types, so this proposal is purely syntactic and 
>> for future extensibility, but I think that it makes sense.

Sorry, missed that.

> I agree that ideally it may be better to have the (currently) fictional:
> 
>   <properties name="acme:book">
>     <propertyString name="acme:title">
>       <value>Brave New World II</value>
>     </propertyString>
>     <propertyList name="acme:releases">
>       <properties>
>         <propertyDateTime name="acme:date">
>           <value>2008-04-01T00:00:00.000+02:00</value>
>         </propertyDateTime>
>         <propertyString name="acme:format">
>           <value>Hardcover</value>
>         </propertyString>
>       </properties>
>       <properties>
>         <propertyDateTime name="acme:date">
>           <value>2009-04-15T00:00:00.000+02:00</value>
>         </propertyDateTime>
>         <propertyString name="acme:format">
>           <value>Mass Market Paperback</value>
>         </propertyString>
>       </properties>
>     </propertyList>
>   </properties>

How about:

<properties name="acme:book">
   <title>Brave New World II</title>
   <releases>
     <date>2008-04-01T00:00:00.000+02:00</date>
     <format>hardcover</format>
   </releases>
   <releases>
     <date>2009-04-15T00:00:00.000+02:00</date>
     <format>Mass Market Paperback</format>
   </releases>
</properties>

That would just use the CMIS XML property type.

 > ...

BR, Julian
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