On 08/11/06, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, so I've take my option 1 approach (see previous mail) and implemented a solution in C++ SDO which allows CDATA sections and their strange markers to appear in SDO properties. In this way the API for reading and creating CDATA sections is the normal SDO string API. In a way this is just a preliminary stab to allow us to play with CDATA and see whether this simple approach is satisfactory. From the previous mails there was discussion of alternative approaches where special markers are introduced to indicate where CDATA appears hence removing the need to maintain the CDATA markers in text. However there are some tricky cases. Particularly where one or more CDATA sections appear within primitive text string. As schema gives us no help in locating CDATA sections this leaves the model at a bit of a loss in terms of representing them. We would potentially end up adding scaffolding around primitive string types, or preferably create a new type, that is able to represent accurately the combination of text and CDATA sections. Anyhow something more complex may be appropriate in the future but this simple solution allows us to offer something to our PHP SDO users quickly that I don't think causes us big problems for the future. If in the future we have special flags we can always reproduce the CDATA markers if required. I created a JIRA to record progress on this issue ( http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-908) Simon
Simon, I've looked through your patch and I think that's a sensible approach. It will obviously be a while (at least) before the specification has anything definitive to say on this subject and what you are doing at least gives the SDO user sight of the CDATA text. (Unlike the current situation where it is silently discarded.) Have you tried building your patch on Linux? Regards, Geoff.
