Re: [ISSUE-42] tool reference

Nice idea! In addition, what about considering a global repository with 
discoverable tool descriptions through a unique id (aka URI/IRI)?

Cheers -- Jörg

On Sep 26, 2012 at 07:04 (CEST), Yves Savourel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One thought for the issue of referencing tools :
>
> We could have a lone its:toolRefs attribute that belong to no data category and can be placed anywhere.
>
> It would take one or more composite values. Each one made of:
> - a data category identifier
> - the id of a tool description item in the external tools list.
>
> e.g: toolRef='datacatId1/toolId1 datacatId2/toolId2'
>
> The behavior would be that tool-id for a given data category is overridden only if the attribute specifies a new tool-id for that data category.
>
> For example: if we have a first instance its:toolRefs='mtConfidence/t-1' in the document
> And then one of its children elements has its:toolRefs='disamiguation/t-2'
> The current tool id for mtConfidence would still be t-1
>
> This would allow to use toolRefs on several overlapping data categories, without losing information.
> It's basically like if each data category had its own toolRef attribute.
>
> Just a thought.
> -yves
>

Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:57:00 UTC