Re: DsmlValue

[Christine Tomlinson <chris.tomlinson@sun.com>]

Both Jeff and Shon have pointed out the poor characteristics of the Sun proposal w.r.t. DsmlValue.

In the spirit of the observations, I'd like to propose the following change:

 <!-- **** DSML Value **** -->

 <xsd:simpleType name="DSMLValueType">
  <xsd:union memberTypes="xsd:string xsd:base64Binary xsd:anyURI"/>
 </xsd:simpleType>

 <xsd:complexType name="DsmlValue">
  <xsd:attribute name="valuetype" type="DSMLValueType"/>
 </xsd:complexType>

ciao,
Christine

Shon Vella wrote:

> The way that DsmlValue is currently defined would have an operation look something like:
>
> <addRequest
>     xmlns="urn:oasis-open:dsml:2"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     dn="cn=a, o=b">
>         <attr desc="objectclass">
>                 <value>
>                         <utf8>inetorgperson</utf8>
>                 </value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="cn">
>                 <value>
>                         <utf8>a</utf8>
>                 </value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="GUID">
>                 <value>
>                         <binary>bz5mv6g5BUWtMD0QomH1kQ==</binary>
>                 </value>
>         </attr>
> </addRequest>
>
> I can live with this, though for reasons that are purely aesthetic, I prefer the DSML 1.0 encoding of <value> which would look something like:
>
> <addRequest
>     xmlns="urn:oasis-open:dsml:2"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     dn="cn=a, o=b">
>         <attr desc="objectclass">
>                 <value>inetorgperson</value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="cn">
>                 <value>a</value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="GUID">
>                 <value encoding="base64">bz5mv6g5BUWtMD0QomH1kQ==</value>
>         </attr>
> </addRequest>
>
> or even maybe even:
>
> <addRequest
>     xmlns="urn:oasis-open:dsml:2"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>     dn="cn=a, o=b">
>         <attr desc="objectclass">
>                 <value>inetorgperson</value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="cn">
>                 <value>a</value>
>         </attr>
>         <attr desc="GUID">
>                 <value xsi:type="xs:base64Binary">bz5mv6g5BUWtMD0QomH1kQ==</value>
>         </attr>
> </addRequest>
>
> which would make it more amenable to schema validation than the 1.0 scheme, though less so than the current proposal.
>
> Any one else have any thoughts on this?
>
> Shon Vella
> Software Engineer, Consultant
> svella@novell.com
> Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software
> www.novell.com
>
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