Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>     What bothers me more is how changes to geoapi have been handled
>>     recently. In some cases ( like Ben's proposed changes ) it seems a
>>     formal proposal is needed.
>>
>>
>> I missed this conversation about Ben's proposed changes; what are they? 
>> I was not signed up to the mailing list for a bit - in general Ben has 
>> my full support since he is deep in the depths of implementation now and 
>> I want to know what is holding him up as soon as possible.
> Maybe I mis-understood, but it sounded like Ben wanted some changes in 
> the feature model to deal with complex types with simple content. If i 
> mis understood my apologies.

Justin, your understanding is correct. I was advocating better GeoAPI 
support for complexType with simpleContent (e.g. CodeType, MeasureType). 
There are two ugly but effective workarounds:
(1) smuggle simple content in a fake property, or
(2) smuggle simple content in UserData.

I am not blocked, just trying to improve the code base. The change I 
advocate will need a proposal because it will break everything that uses 
a ComplexType, gets its value, and expects a Collection of Property.

I will chat to Jody soon.

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia

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