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Subject: RE: [security-services] Rob's errata: Metadata 1
I tend to agree w/ Scott. If you start to repeat schema definition in prose, you introduce a lot of opportunity for inconsistency and error. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu] > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 8:50 AM > To: Robert Philpott (RSA); 'SAML' > Subject: RE: [security-services] Rob's errata: Metadata 1 > > > Thanks Scott. I forgot to check the schema definition. I do think it > > would help to add some explicit text in the attribute description to > > mention this point for those that don't check the schema definition or > > do schema validation in their implementations. > > I guess. Not doing schema validation at runtime doesn't mean one doesn't use > the schema to decide what's legal and what isn't. There are probably various > places where we could repeat the schema definition in prose, but I'd rather > put a statement in BOLD at the top that says "Implementers should always > refer to the schema if in doubt over the allowable content of an element or > attribute" or something like that. > > -- Scott > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS > at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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