perfsonar development work

[ulisses <>]

Hi Jeff!

On 2006-08-24 09:50:58, Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> These are development related questions - so I'm only responding on that 
> list.

Thanks for the clarification

> 
> ulisses wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >Because of my problems in XML conversions and some comments, I'm not sure 
> >If I'm doing right when returning the xml. I understood that any XML 
> >document syntactically correct should be ok.
> >
> >am I right? in this case I don't understand why I have xml to dom failures.
> >
> >Of course, a well organized xml document is preferable. Currently, in the 
> >xml output I have to send as response, I have to return a list of links, a 
> >list of n
> >odes [*] and the return code.
> >
> >Which should be the way do structure the document? are there guidelines?
> >
> >Maybe the way to do it should be:
> 
> This is much closer to correct. As others have already pointed out - you 
> had a very strange looking structure (nested data elements - metadata 
> information in data elements...)
> 
> ><nmwg:message>
> >     <nmwg:metadata id="TOPSDownloadDBResponseMetadata"/>
> >     <nmwg:data metadataIdRef="TOPSDownloadDBResponseMetadata">
> >
> >             // list of link elements
> >
> >     </nmwg:data>
> >
> >     <nmwg:data metadataIdRef="TOPSDownloadDBResponseMetadata">
> >
> >             // list of node elements
> >
> >     </nmwg:data>
> >
> >     // result code metadata and data
> >
> >     <nmwg:metadata id="result code">
> >             <nmwg:eventType>success.ls.remove</nmwg:eventType>
> >     </nmwg:metadata>
> >
> >     <nmwg:data id="result code description" metadataIdRef="result code">
> >             <nmwg:datum>Text explaining the error message</nmwg:datum>
> >     </nmwg:data>
> >
> ></nmwg:message>
> 
> One thing that is not correct. You are reusing the same id's in metadata 
> and data elements. id's should be unique unless they are referring to the 
> 'same' element.

Excuse me but I don't see it. IMHO, All ids are different in this case. In 
this case ids shown:

        id="TOPSDownloadDBResponseMetadata"
        id="result code"
        id="result code description"


maybe you have been confused by id references? 

Thanks

        Ulisses