perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Matthias, Mark,

Does this solve the issue for light path monitoring protocols that you 
wrote to me about?

Loukik


Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Loukik;
>
> > > > The nmwg rnc definition makes it mandatory for the the data 
> > > > elements to contain an element inside. However, for RRD MA and SQL 
> > > > MA, if no data is found, the data returned is simply a data element 
> > > > without any elements inside.
> > > >
> > > > The only change required is to update the schema definitions as the 
> > > > Message object implementation seems to work ok in such cases. Can 
> > > > you please make this change?
> > >
> > >
> > > So just so I am clear on what is being asked here, you want the 
> > > schema to be updated to allow empty data elements?
> > yup.
>
>
> It appears that this is already possible:
>
> Data =
>        element nmwg:data {
>                (
>                        Identifier &
>                        MetadataIdentifierRef? &
>                        (
>                                Metadata* |
>                                (
>                                        commonTime+ & 
>                                        Datum*
>                                ) |
>                                Datum* |
>                                Key*
>                        )
>                ),
>                anyElement*
>
>
>        }
>
>
>
> The only requirement is the id element, everything else is an optional 
> attribute/element so I don't believe we need to change anything.
>
> -jason