Jack Schwartz wrote: > > General: > > In general, the parser places the requirement on the derived profiles > project that the format of the tags be in an easily searchable format, > for example that they contain a common prefix which can be searched for. > > I don't see why the parser would place requirement on the derived profile project on the format of the tags or whatever. Since the new parser design doesn't automatically do syntactic validation, it will be up to the derived manifest client program or AI setup that accepts derived manifest to perform the derivation whenever it is appropriate, and call the parser's function to do syntactic validation whenever it feels it is appropriate. From the parser's point of view, I don't think it should even need to know about whether it is a derived manifest or the regular manifest.
Also, whether to have a tag with a common prefix or 2 tags or whatever is the implementation detail of the derived profile project, I believe. Why would the parser care about that? --Karen
