Re: [ebxml-iic] TestProfile

[Matthew MacKenzie <matt@xmlglobal.com>]

Jacques,

I agree, that is a good feature to have.  Thanks!  I will incorporate it.

Cheers,

Matt

On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 06:13 PM, Jacques Durand wrote:

> Matt:
>
> Looks sufficient. Two comments:
>
> - I am wondering whether we should authorize profile definitions
> that "override" keywords like OPTIONAL or RECOMMENDED for some
> items in the Test Req base, but only in the upgrade direction,
> i.e. make the feature a MUST for this profile.
> I would lean toward making this possible, at least when feature
> is initially RECOMMENDED.
> If there is a consensus on this, your TestRequirementRef element
> below should have an optional attribute "requirementlevel" (e.g. requirementlevel="MUST"),
> or should we craft an entire new Test Req item in such case?
> (but that means the Test Req base is no longer stable...)
>
> - A master Test Req file could also have a "reqsversion" attribute, that matches
> the spec version # (in addition, the name of the master f may of course change, e.g. reqs_V3.xml).  If we do so, we can also have same version # attribute in the
>
>  Profile definition, and so manage more easily a set of versioned profiles,
> with same name (we may not want to change a profile name with each spec version,
> as profiles have "user" exposure and business meaning, unlike the master f name).
>  
>
> <TestProfile requirementsLocation="http://www.geek.ca/reqs_V3.xml"
> reqsversion="3.0" name="Matt's Profile" description="Additional requirements for use on the Matt Network">
>   <Dependency name="Core Modules" profileRef="http://oasis/iic/msg/corereq.xml" />
> - <TestRequirementRef id="matt-1" >
> <TestRequirementRef id="matt-2" requirementlevel="MUST">
> <TestRequirementRef id="matt-3" >
>   <Comment>This requirement is added to the profile because ... blah blah</Comment>
>   </TestRequirementRef>
>   </TestProfile>
>
> Jacques
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew MacKenzie [mailto:matt@xmlglobal.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: ebxml-iic@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [ebxml-iic] TestProfile
>
>
> As promised during the call today, here is a first stab at defining an
> XML Schema which allows us to organize TestRequirements into
> TestProfiles by ID reference.
>
> Comments?