Hi all. Sorry for the cross-posting. I was thinking of writing a system to constrain or validate the set of keys in an annotation bundle. I see that BioPerl has one already. Does anybody have views about this.
* Is it useful? * Is it necisary? * What does it need to validate? * Do annotations need an ISA slot (like Object.getClass()), or should you always validate them by hand (like annType.instanceOf(ann))? * Do slots need any behavior, or are they purely places to put stuff? My initial plan was to knock something up that validated that an annotation had a given set of keys, and that their values where of an apropreate type. I have no wish to implement an entire frames language, just a bit of validation over our fluffy annotations. With any luck, we can produce an 'srs formated file' -> 'constrained annotation bundle' parser that will work for lots of use-cases. Matthew _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
