On Feb 22, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dain Sundstrom wrote:On another subject.... Aaron brings up an important point. How do we extend our XML schema catalog, so users can provide additional schemas to the processor? Can we have a schema directory that is scanned on startup?
Boy, I haven't looked in a while, but isn't that (or shouldn't that be) a GBean too? Don't like the default, drop in a new one, etc.
Of course it would be a GBean; the issue is how do we tell the gbean, "here is a new schema"? There has to be a schema repository somewhere. It could be a database, file system, the internet, whatever, but we need a way for users to easily add stuff to it. A good analogy is the jar repository; users simply add files in the directory structure, and we pickup the files automatically. We could have an index catalog.xml file like xmbeans uses.... I don't really care how it is implemented as long as it is easy for users to add schemas.
-dain
