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Minor design issue with the core

From: Andreas Kuehne <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 11:23:00 -0000

Hi Ernst Jan, > We should avoid cyclic dependencies, so indeed I would expect a new > schema file that contains the 'basic' (low level) specs. From a > practical point of view the introduction of a schema with one item is > ok, but from a more general point of view maybe the core has to divided > into more basic types and more complex types. But I don't know if that > can be treated as a minor change... I agree that from a developer point of view this isn't a big. But adding another schema file could be considered 'significant' ... let's see what Detlef thinks about this. Greetings, Andreas > Regards > > Ernst Jan > > Andreas Kuehne wrote: >> HI all, >> >> >> while assembling the package for the core I noticed that we got a cyclic >> dependency between the base schema and the rewritten XMLDSig schema. >> This is usually considered as ugly. The single structure that is >> required by XMLDSig is the NsPrefixMappingType of the base package. To >> resolve the cycle we could introduce a new schema file that contains >> only this element. >> >> >> What's your view on this? Introduce and explain an additional schema or >> just go on as is? >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> >> Andreas >> -- Andreas KÃhne Chair of OASIS DSS-X phone: +49 177 293 24 97 mailto: [email protected] Trustable Ltd. Niederlassung Deutschland Gartenheimstr. 39C - 30659 Hannover Amtsgericht Hannover HRB 212612 Director Andreas KÃhne Company UK Company No: 5218868 Registered in England and Wales