Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Chris Hyzer wrote:
> > Alternatively, would it make sense to include an attribute of 
> > uuid-bearing child elements that contain the name of the object being 
> > referenced? Eg,
>
> Well, if it were easy, I might say yes.  But I didn't want to mess
> with the default Xstream serialization.  Plus, I also didn't want
> people to rely on this either i.e. start using it for something,
> since the xml export isn't for provisioning, right?  :)

Understood. It's just that my sanity-checker fires up when I see us 
mapping structured data into comments.

Gary, who were you anticipating would use those comments, humans or 
automatons?

Tom