ISSUE-551: Flatten XML Schema removing records and/or dependencies?

Flatten XML Schema removing records and/or dependencies?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

XML Serialization

Raised by:

Curt Tilmes

Opened on:

2012-09-12

Description:

I was looking at renaming Bundle->Document and NamedBundle->Bundle for PROV-ISSUE-549, and I wonder if it wouldn't simplify things to simply remove "records" and "dependencies". They seem to be artificial organizational elements. They make editing/maintaining the schema a bit cleaner, but at the cost of making the resulting XML more complicated.

I wonder if we shouldn't go the other way, make the schema itself a bit more complicated in order to make it easier to produce XML PROV documents in a more natural way?

I propose making the top level element always be a prov:Document, which
can hold any number of any of (entity,activity,agent,bundle and any of the dependency elements without the dependencies wrapper) in any order (also resolves PROV-ISSUE-547).

A prov:Bundle would also hold any of those with the exception of another bundle.

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Related emails:

1. Re: XML Schema Updates (from Curt.Tilmes@nasa.gov on 2012-09-20)
2. Re: PROV-ISSUE-547: prov:records requires a specific order of elements [XML Serialization] (from hook.hua@jpl.nasa.gov on 2012-09-13)
3. Re: prov-wg Telcon Agenda September 13, 2012 (from Curt.Tilmes@nasa.gov on 2012-09-12)
4. Re: PROV-ISSUE-551: Flatten XML Schema removing records and/or dependencies? [XML Serialization] (from l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2012-09-12)
5. Re: PROV-ISSUE-551: Flatten XML Schema removing records and/or dependencies? [XML Serialization] (from Curt.Tilmes@nasa.gov on 2012-09-12)
6. PROV-ISSUE-551: Flatten XML Schema removing records and/or dependencies? [XML Serialization] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-09-12)

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