That is is a good idea. We could bundle the XSD and the tutorial with the extension. This will be much easier now because the new resolver will pull down schemas as it needs them and we no longer have to ship all the schemas with the tutorial.
Kind regards, Ben. On 04/08/10 23:30, Ryan Clark wrote: > Thanks Ben - > > I understand that the XSD is not definitive, and that it is really just a > bit of editing help, nothing more. I also agree that a GUI for editing > configurations would be great, but that's a significant undertaking - it is > not at all straightforward to think of what such an interface would even > look like. In the meantime, the XSD certainly is quite helpful! > > I certainly don't understand the ins and outs of the developer's process, > but why couldn't the XSD just be made a part of the app-schema extension > itself? Similar to the way that Geoserver always installs itself with a > bunch of dummy data, couldn't the tutorial data just be included with the > extension? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Caradoc-Davies [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:58 PM > To: Ryan Clark > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Definitive version of > AppSchemaDataAccess.xsd? > > Ryan, > > I have been avoiding this issue for years. :-) > > We use the version in the gt-app-schema test-data as the canonical version: > http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/modules/unsupported/app-schema/app-schem > a/src/test/resources/test-data/AppSchemaDataAccess.xsd > > Technically, you should use the version matching the release tag of the > build you have. > > The XSD is used *only* to aid manual editing of mapping files (they are read > with a non-validating parser). See this warning next to a non-canonical copy > in GeoServer. (I'll be including this in the next update of the app-schema > tutorial): > https://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/src/extension/app-schema/app-schema > -test/src/test/resources/test-data/AppSchemaDataAccess.README.txt > > The reason the mapping file XSD has not been published is that: > > (1) We do not have a suitable persistent place to store it (although I think > we could put it somewhere on geotools.org). > > (2) We would have to version it for releases and update it every time trunk > is updated, and this is quite a bit of trouble just for editing help. There > are still some nasty issues (think of a developer making code changes to > trunk pushing out XSD changes to the file while a deployer tries to edit a > mapping file for a trunk snapshot). The underlying problem is that this XSD > lacks a governance process. > > (2a) Feel free to use the canonical location in your schemaLocation; > beware: the content and location will change without notice. > (gt-app-schema is planned to be officially supported and will be moved). > > (3) We should have a GUI configuration editor so users do not have to edit > mapping files by hand. > > At the moment AppSchemaDataAccess.xsd is subject to least-bad management, > and copies of the file have less failure modes than the other possibilities. > > I am open to suggestions if anyone can recommend a better solution. > > Kind regards, > Ben. > > > On 04/08/10 06:32, Ryan Clark wrote: >> I'm wondering if there is a definitive version of the > AppSchemaDataAccess.xsd somewhere? I noticed that the schema that I > downloaded along with the tutorial does not contain the<includedTypes> > element. It is really useful to have this schema to work with, just > wondering if there's one floating around that contains the includedTypes? >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies<[email protected]> Software Engineering Team > Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources > Research Centre > > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineering Team Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
