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• To: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
• Subject: RE: Are people really using Identity constraints specified in XML schema?
• From: w3c@d...
• Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:08:25 -0400
• Cc: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Peter,

That functionality is really in the registry interface - and is a designer
support functionality - to return potential candidate content fields - as you
are creating the CAM template in the first place.

If I look at something like OAGi BODs and search in their data dictionary on
'date' 'billing' - I probably get about 10 or 15 hits, and then I need to
decide which one - by looking at the semantics around each - is best suited to
my purpose, etc.

Seems like we are straying now into design-time v run-time.

Ooops - it must be Friday afternoon again!

Thanks, DW.

Quoting "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>:

> w3c@d... writes:
> > 
> > Here's how VAM works in CAM right now.  We have a simple 
> > precedence sequence.
> > 
> > Again - in order to remain sane - and to allow implementers 
> > of CAM engines and writers of CAM templates - to do stuff 
> > that does not require Teraflops of processing power or 
> > excessive tearing of hair out!
> > 
> > Anyway - the VAM is this - base rules are those in-line rules 
> > embedded into structure members, (or included via an included 
> > structure).  These are overridden by any rules that match the 
> > same XPath target(s) that are declared in the the 
> > <BusinessContext> section of the template.  Third - the 
> > <ContentReference> section provides default rules (typically 
> > retrieved from the central registry, but can be in-lined too) 
> > - that provide rules if neither the structure or context 
> > section provides any.  Last but not least there is the 
> > <DataValidation> section - this is mostly for external calls 
> > to webservices - and so again - anything failing these checks 
> > will be rejected with an appropriate error - this section is 
> > optional though - an intended for backend internal 
> > integration needs against the actual data content - rather 
> > than structural checks.
> 
> I don't really view that as VAM, more like a default fallback mechanism.
> 
> 
> <warning type="weak example"/> 
> 
> The VAM I want would to something like understand that a researcher can
> query on birth date and disease and get back a randomized patient
> identifier, but the same query will fail if it contains a geographic
> identifier since the population of patients (for the given disease) is
> so small that including both restrictions will allow the researcher to
> uniquely identify the patient.
> 
> 
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