RE: [dss] Core versus Extended Profile Handling

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> For the core, I'm voting to keep it as-is.  I.e. <Options> is a sequence of
> <xs:any>, and there's a bunch of core options that profiles can pick and
> choose from, or add their own

I agree.

> I was thinking a profile might just be some text that says "these 3 core
> options are allowed, and this core option is mandatory, and this profile
> option is allowed".

Exactly.

> If you wanted to translate that into a schema, you would translate the
> <Options> element as an <xs:all> of the option elements.  In other words,
> there would be no ordering constraints on the options (in fact, we should
> *insist* that profiles not add ordering constraints).

I hadn't thought about the implications of ordering, but I agree with
you here, too.
	/r$

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