perfsonar development work

[Igor Leonardo <>]

Hello all!
I'm a master degree student at a University of Brazil, and i'm working in a project that aims to produce a new MA. This MA will be a fork of perfSONAR-BUOY MA, since it will do basicaly the same thing. It will collect some data from a database and retrieve then to the requestor, differing only in the fact that the new MA will collect the data from a SQLite DB and there will be a primary key that will represent the main data (something like a data type) that will be requested.
So, i'm in trouble because NMWG is really a big complex thing to my head. (: Studing the iPerf.rnc, i found the block:

<nmwg:parameter name="REQUIRED_ENUM_NAME" value="OPTIONAL_VALUE"
#                   xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/">
# 
#     <!-- ANY TEXT, (IF YOU DID NOT USE THE VALUE ATTRIBUTE) -->
# 
#   </nmwg:parameter>

The ANY TEXT line means that i can use whatever name i want to define a parameter?
If it so, my idea is to construct a metadata block with a parameter that will be my primary key. This will let me use the datum parameters to represent what data i want from the main data specified at the key.

Thanks alot for any help.

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Igor Leonardo