ISSUE-28

what to do if the programming language does not fully support a data structure

State:
CLOSED
Product:
All
Raised by:
Paul Downey
Opened on:
2006-03-27
Description:
"what to do if the programming language does not fully support a data 
structure"
originates from ISSUE-1, which we resolved by splitting into three sub-issues.

This issue seems closely related to conformance.
Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-28: what to do if the programming language does not fully support a data structure (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-03-27)
  2. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 28 March 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-03-28)
  3. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 28 March 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-03-28)
  4. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 4 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-01)
  5. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 18 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-15)
  6. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 25 April 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-04-23)
  7. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 31st July - 1st August 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-08-01)
  8. Minutes: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding F2F 5th-6th October 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-07)

Related notes:

2006-08-01: Closed. No Action. Discussion around this concluded that as long as the tools do not bail out and reject the schema and allow all valid instance docs to be processed and created (even if it allows invalid docs through) then we are happy for those structures to be included in Basic Patterns. The experience of the schema author is still good...