Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi Ethan. > > >>> >>> >>> General: >>> >>> In general, the parser places the requirement on the derived >>> profiles project that the format of the tags be in an easily >>> searchable format, for example that they contain a common prefix >>> which can be searched for. >> >> Its not clear to me that we're going to be using the >> parser to do syntactical validation of the base manifest >> on the server. I will note this possibility though. > OK, but there are other reasons too. In addition to use for > validation, this will allow you to easily search for the items you > want to process. Since they can be anywhere in the tree, the ability > to use some kind of wildcard to find all items will be useful.
That's a good point; tough, doesn't the document need to qualify to meet the given schema before the parser can even read and serve the document to searches for a consumer? thanks, -ethan