Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

--On 21 January 2010 09:28 -0600 Tom Barton 
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 wrote:

> 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?
My first concern is being able to understand/troubleshoot the data without 
having to lookup all those uuids. Comments would not be very friendly for 
machine parsing but we are only expecting Grouper to parse the file and it 
doesn't need the data here.

I would suggest that we go with comments for now and wait and see if anyone 
requests additional attributes / tags.
> Tom



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing