Re: Namespace: what's the correct usage?

[Martin Gudgin <marting@develop.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
To: "Martin Gudgin" <marting@develop.com>
Cc: "Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI" <kohsukekawaguchi@yahoo.com>;
<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Namespace: what's the correct usage?


> On Sat, 19 May 2001, Martin Gudgin wrote:
>
> [sample code]
> > In the above the Person instance is sometimes bound to the local name
> > 'martin' and sometimes bound to the local name 'o'. So I use the type
name
> > for the top level and then the field names of the Person class for the
child
> > elements.
>
> ASN.1/XER's approach to this problem is to use a set of rules to see which
> names to use when mapping from a programming-language-style type
> definition.
>
> http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/example.htm
>
> Note:
>
> 1) The top level element is named after the "class"
> 2) Everything else is generally named from the field names
> 3) The <children> element is defined as a sequence of ChildInformation
> "objects", and some way of delimiting each of them is again needed, so
> they are put into ChildInformation wrappers in the absence of a field name
> (you could also go for multiple <children> elements, but that would look
> odd - it's a plural, dammit!)
>
> ABS
>

Hi Al,

Looks like we have a similar approach, modulo the <children> element ( is
that basically used for arrays/collections? ).

Regards

Martin Gudgin
DevelopMentor