I believe we should index both.  A description of the Schema, along with
contact info, etc. should be required at the time the schema is registered.
The issue of storing a local copy of the schema, or simply a pointer to it,
needs to be evaluated further.  I can see pro's and con's to both options.

Functions, such as element searching by text string, need to be provided
regardless of which way we choose to index.

Tod, how far along is the reference release for JAXR?  Any chance of getting
some code that will work on Linux (being that Sterling is part of the expert
group)?  I am installing XRR, but it only runs on windows, so I don't know
how accessible it will be to the group.

Regards,
Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Baker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New Registry Technologies
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Tod Matola wrote:
> > Thomas Baker wrote:
> > > -- This seems to involve creating a catalog (descriptive
> > >    metadata) about all sorts of things, including XML
> schemas and UML
> > >    classes.  The DCMI registry, in contrast, should be in
> essence a
> > >    database of schemas themselves (not just metadata
> about schemas).
> > >    Is the API designed to handle schemas?
> >
> > Remind me again why we need the schema in registry (or
> should that be
> > repository?). It is not the canonical copy (or is it), but rather a
> > cached copy that faclitates naviagation (which might be the
> answer). But
> > collecting the metadata about the schema seems to do this as well.
>
> Original copy or cached copy -- I have no opinion about that.  The
> distinction I was making is between indexing a description of a schema
> (only) as opposed to indexing the schema itself, to make it
> possible to
> search (for example) for elements that have to do with "title".
>
> Tom
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