Re: Proposal to modify Classifications in ebRIM

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Martin,

Glad we can meet use case #1. For use case #2 see my comments at the bottom.

Martin Bryan wrote:

> >To go the other direction it works as well. One can issue a
> GetClassificationTreeRequest and give it  ClassificationNode reference to
> any
> node in any scheme, and a integer depth parameter as input. The resulting
> GetClassificationTreeResponse will have the complete linked tree for the
> requested sub-tree in the scheme scheme as a single XML document when the
> depth
> specified is negative. Othewise it return descendent nodes upto specified
> level
> of depth. If the specified node is a root of a scheme then the entire scheme
> can
> be retrieved as well.
>
> >Does that meet the first use case as you envision it?
>
> Yes
>
> >
> > getPath only returns a single node. Note that I set "set of nodes". Using
> a
> > range statement I should be able to retrieve any fragment of an existing
> > classification scheme that is relevant.
>
> >The above can currently be supported with SQL Query facility in OASIS ebRS
> V1.0
> with a query like below:
>
> >SELECT FROM ClassificationNode WHERE path = ‘/Geography/Asia/*’
>
> This seems to offer no functionality over the above as Asia is a specific
> node, and * seems to indicate all entries one level down from this. I was
> thinking more along the lines of Europe[5,15] to select a specific set of
> nodes, such as those forming the EU.
>
> Martin

Your example for use case 2 brings up a larger issue that we do not support the
ability to use the same ClassificationNode in multiple schemes. For example UK
should be a child of Europe as well as a child of EU. This can be done by
classifying classification nodes but it is awkward.

That said....

The semantic of the spec are that path is an XPATH expression. While it may not
be clearly stated in the spec, the intent of moving to an XPATH expression was
to be able to do any valid XPATH expression that would operate over the document
tree representing all the ClassificationNodes that match all other opredicates
of the query. Thus your use case could be handled by the following modified
query:

SELECT FROM ClassificationNode WHERE path = ‘/Geography/Europe[5,15]’

Note however that relying on particular ordering in the document tree for EU
membership is risky.

Does the above satisfy the use case?

--
Regards,
Farrukh

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