Re: [ubl-dev] infinite loop

[Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Such a rule would have to apply to modelers, not software used to generate a schema set.
You would have to forbid, for some reason, a modeler adding, say, any Party association to any Party aggregate.
That seems artificial too.
And out of scope for rules about the schema design. 
And why? Just to cater for the more archaic tools which might not handle recursion?
The tools, I agree with Ken, should these days be able to handle recursion or they are not proper tools for handling XML.
Unusual for me to side with complexity. People have had ample time to get up to scratch with XML by now though.
I sympathise it is complex but technology loves complexity and it adds value, e.g. I would find designing a chip or hard drive hard but I still accept they are well thought out and very useful.
What is more, we all keep buying the software and hardware no matter how complex it gets.

On 25 Jun 2010 21:32, "Crawford, Mark" <mark.crawford@sap.com> wrote:

Tim

There is a specific UBL NDR rule prohibiting infinite loops.

Mark Crawford
Standards Architect
GEPG Standards Management and Strategy
SAP Labs
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tim McGrath <tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com>

To: stephengreenubl@gmail.com <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
Cc: David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info...

Sent: Fri Jun 25 16:17:40 2010
Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] infinite loop

surely the real practical answer here is that... yes, you can have
infinite loops (as in any hierar...