Re: [sca-c-cpp] NEW ISSUE: Requirements on cpp:parameter/@type too lax

[Andrew Borley <BORLEY@uk.ibm.com>]

This issue has been assigned id CCPP-74
in the Jira system.
See http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/CCPP-74

Andrew

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Andrew Borley
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From:	"David Haney" <haney@roguewave.com>
To:	<sca-c-cpp@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	27/05/2009 18:50
Subject:	[sca-c-cpp] NEW ISSUE: Requirements on cpp:parameter/@type too lax

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Target: C++ C&I Specification CD03
 
Description:
The requirements on the cpp:parameter/@type
attribute (Section D.6) are too lax, and allow specifying any valid C++
type.  There isn’t enough information to support conversion to/from
any arbitrary type.
 
Proposal:
 
Restrict the allowed types to those explicitly
identified in the spec:
 
·
        type : Name
(0..1) – specifies the type of the parameter or struct member or return
type.  The @type attribute of a <cpp:parameter/> element MUST
be a C++ type specified in section 10.3.1.
 
Rationale:

• Since std::string is a valid type from section 10.3.1, the type of this attribute cannot be NCName.  Switched to Name.
• Since the default mapping is taken from this table, it seems to be a reasonable subset to choose the mapping from.

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