On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <
ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote:
> Niels, that is a very good point. Andrea, there is a bunch of XSD stuff
> like substitution groups that are not represented in GeoAPI. It makes it
> quite tricky to break this dependency. Niels knows because he implemented a
> lot of it.
>
> As future work, we could look at refactoring the way XSD information is
> handled in complex types. Perhaps we would be better off moving towards
> that goal one step at a time?
>
> Andrea, would it be OK to accept the dependencies listed by Niels? They
> will not prevent non-XML uses. Future refactoring could make this optional,
> and client code could (for example) inject an XML provider. I do not know
> if Niels is in a position to implement such a large refactoring at this
> time.
>
I remain on my position, everything that is complex feature but does not
require XSD should be merged in main (Feature is the base class, it's a bit
ridicolous that
in order to use it one has to add half of GeoTools in the classpath) and
gt-complex should probably be renamed gt-complex-xsd to make things clear,
that the module is useful only if you're messing with xml schemas.
I know it's not idea, but still looks like a step forward compared to the
current situation, where usage of complex features is basically limited to
a single data store implementation.
Hopefully in time we'll get a xpath property accessor that does not
requires xsd and slowly move to a saner situation where
using complex features can be done with just gt-main in the classpath.
Cheers
Andrea
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