On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Niels Charlier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ben and mailing list,
>
> I would like to propose that some of the stuff in the app-schema module
> gets taken out of the app-schema module, and move either in a new module
> or into an existing module.
>
> The issue I am dealing with now is that I need to use a bunch of stuff
> from app-schema that has to do with complex features in the CSW module,
> but it doesn't actually have anything to do with app-schema itself at
> all (application schema mappings etc).
> In particular
> - Creating complex feature types and features from scratch.
> - Certain parts of the feature type registry, in particular the creation
> of feature types from xsd schemas.
> - The complex feature property accessor, which makes it possible to
> retrieve properties from features with namespace qualified advanced
> x-paths in filters etc...
>
> In my view these things are really something separate from all the rest
> of the stuff that is used to support the application schema mappings
> specifically. Separating these concerns has a number of advantages:
> - A module like CSW can use these features without relying on a whole
> module of which most of the stuff really has nothing to do with it.
> - People can easily implement other implementations of complex feature
> stores or other things that use complex features without having to use
> app-schema.
>

I like the direction, this is very much needed to get complex features
some life outside of the app-schema module

Cheers
Andrea

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