Ethan Quach wrote:
> 
> 
> Ethan Quach wrote:
>>
>>
>> Evan Layton wrote:
>>> I think that providing the information that there was a mis-match 
>>> falls under the XML parsing work. It needs to find the mis-match 
>>> collect the relevant information about that mis-match and report that 
>>> back to the caller. 
>>
>> This tells me the parser is responsible for semantically validating 
>> the meanings of the
>> values in the manifest.  I am highly against this.  IMO, parsers 
>> syntactically validate,
>> not semantically.
> 
> Wait, I'm assuming that what you're talking about here is the validation 
> of the
> repository specification in the manifest; if that's not what you're 
> talking about, then
> nevermind my whole response...

I was referring to the versioning between the schema and the manifest. I'm 
sorry 
if I wasn't clear on what I was talking about. :-(

-evan

> 
> 
> -ethan
> 
>>
>>> Once that's done then yes it would be up to the AI client to deal 
>>> with perhaps logging the error or additional information but that 
>>> information should come from the parser.
>>
>> So why shouldn't the parser layer just pass the value itself back to 
>> the AI client (or
>> whatever is doing the semantic validation), and this error information 
>> flows from that
>> point on.
>>
>>
>> -ethan
>>
>>>
>>> -evan
>>>
>>> Ethan Quach wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Evan Layton wrote:
>>>>> With respect to the schema and manifest version work I think we 
>>>>> would also want a requirement that not only does the installer 
>>>>> detect this mis-match but logs a message and passes an error back 
>>>>> to the rest of the installer. We want to make sure that when these 
>>>>> mis-matches are found that the user is informed in a way that they 
>>>>> know what actions they may need to take to either correct the 
>>>>> problem or make sure they are getting defined and expected behavior 
>>>>> from the install.
>>>>
>>>> How is that a requirement for XML parsing team?  That seems like its
>>>> a requirement to the AI client redesign team.
>>>>
>>>> -ethan
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> just my $0.02... ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> -evan
>>>>>
>>>>> Jack Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> Hi AI rework project teams,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please send your XML parsing requirements to the XML Parsing 
>>>>>> Rework Team so that we can give you what you need.  (Or, please 
>>>>>> let us know that your team's requirements are already being 
>>>>>> handled, if that is the case.)  Please get the list to us as soon 
>>>>>> as you can, by Thursday COB latest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For context, please have a look at the problem statements we are 
>>>>>> solving, and have a look at the strawman proposal for an idea of 
>>>>>> where we are going.  The strawman proposal will be revised 
>>>>>> according to your needs.  Both can be found at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/XML_Parsing/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Thanks,
>>>>>>    Jack
>>>>>
>>>
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