Re: [regrep] Implementing CCTS in Registry - further thoughts

[David RR Webber - XML ebusiness <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Joe,

I think we just treat everyone's "tag soup" equally.

They will all think they have special tag soup that should
be intrinsic to the registry.

However - let them construct specialized agents that 
can handle the fancy querying they want - based on
the RIM facilities within the registry, and then within the 
XML MIMEtype - they have the ability to specify an
objecttype - so they can locate their special tag soup
from everyone elses...

Cheers, DW.
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Message text written by "Chiusano Joseph"
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I see this as a key decision to be made before proceeding too far ahead
- that is, how much (and which) of the metadata prescribed in the CC
spec should be represented as Registry metadata, and how much/which
should be "coupled" with the representation of the Core Component
entity.  One example would be a Core Component vs. BIE - should there be
a registry metadata attribute (intrinsic or slot, whichever we finally
decide on) called "EntityType" (or something similar) with values of
"CC", "BIE", etc., or should this metadata be indicated within the
serialization of the Core Component (by an EntityType tag, for example)
with the registry considering it a "generic" Core Component entity?  

Of course, there would be ramifications for querying - will queries have
to get down into the content to find matches on certain parameters, vs.
querying the registry metadata.

- Joe<