Re: subelements

[Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>]

Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> wrote:
> Johan Rydberg writes:
> >Why are configurations named with an subelements of <source> or <target>
> >and not text payload of the element?  This should make it impossible to
> >have a configuration named "config", for example.
> 
> I think you have it backwards, or I'm misunderstanding you.
> 
> By using named subelements, we allow extensibility such as:
> 
>   <source>
>     <divine-inspiration xmlns="http://di.example.net"/>
>   </source>

... except that this isn't allowed by the XSD in rfc4741.  Should this
be viewed as a bug in the schema?

(In general I think it's unfortunate that the schema is not more
extensible.)


/martin

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