Re: [dss-x] Regarding DSS core schema

[Stefan Drees <stefan@drees.name>]

On 21.01.13 16:54, Juan Carlos Cruellas wrote:
> > back in the early days we thought of the use of just one single profile.
> > And we missed the opportunity to drop the Profile attribute completely
> > when we introduced AdditionalProfiles.
> Yes...in some point in time we started to do some work on how to use
> different profiles simultaneously but we stopped that work...anyway,
> maybe some informative note clarifying the issue would be worth in the
> next version of the core....

yes. I second this! In the upcoming next version / errata / comments of 
/ to / for the core we SHOULD clarify this.

> > Pim already pointed out this inheritance problem. Nevertheless, if the
> > requestor does not mandate a profile, the server must have the chance to
> > respond without a Profile attribute. Or we apply the Null pattern and
> > define an URN for a 'NoProfile' profile ...
> I agree in giving the possibility of responding without any
> profile...this NoProfile URN would have the advantage of not breaking
> the xml schema of the core, which I guess it has been used for building
> a number of implementations, even it could be a bit extrange (but we
> could be completely transparent and add an informative note in the next
> version).....

Again: I am also in favour of adding such a NoProfile URN for the 100% 
core use case.

All the best,
Stefan