RE: [provision-comment] Public Comment

["Jeff Bohren" <jbohren@opennetwork.com>]

Nir,

There are several proposals currently under consideration for adding
complex data support to SPML. I will be glad to explain how this would
be supported in the OpenNetwork Technologies proposal. In the ONT
proposal, complex data can be passed as the contents of the value
element and the SPML Schema that defines that element would reference an
XSD which defines the allowed syntax of the XML. Thus a client can make
an smpl:schemaRequest to retrieve the SPML Schema for a service, and
then that schema could then be used to validate the fields like you want
to do.

The ONT proposal also has a mechanism to pass the provisioning data only
as XML, with out relying on attribute value pairs. Using this mechanism,
XSD is included in the SPML Schema that defines the allowed syntax of
the XML. 

The choice of which mechanism to use would be left to the SPML service
implementer.

Of course the committee is still considering several proposals for this
so it's too early to say how this will all work out in the end.

Jeff Bohren
Product Architect
OpenNetwork Technologies, Inc
 
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:57 AM
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Subject: [provision-comment] Public Comment


Comment from: nir_z@hotmail.co.il

Hi


Two years ago when we designed our provisioning system it was obvious we
will use XML to send provisioning requests.

When we designed our XML our guidelines were performance and
maintainability.

Regarding maintainability - we wanted that all field validation will be
done using XSD, thus minimizing code changes.


We ended up with XML where each field/attribute is defined as a node in
the XML and the XSD define each specific field content (using types,
enumerations, patterns, etc).


Now we're considering adopting the SPML where each field/attribute is
identified by the attribute "name" of the node <attr>.


Is there a way to validate the content of the <value> node according to
the value of the "name" attribute in the <attr> node using XSD (or
another standard method)?


Thanks


Nir Zayden

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