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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Den 15. feb. 2011 kl. 18.40 skrev Bob Jolliffe:
>
> > Simple validation seems to work ok.  I get an "Aw, Snap! ..." when
> > posting twice with the same period but that is probably something you
> > are not catching yet.
>
> Should work now.
>
> > I don't agree with this.
>
> I know :) I don't necessarily agree myself, but it is also a matter of what
> is practically possible.. (And it might make sense to have a simpler
> json-oriented web api vs. a more fullfledged xml format for heavy imp/exp.
> Are you coming to Oslo in March by any chance, then we can fight it out! )
>
>
Can you please explain why it is not practically possible to have dxf as the
root element?

I don't have anything against grouping datavalues in sets to make the format
more compact. But, first, we currently don't have any real requirements or
use-case where we want to persist the "datavalueset". Second we currently
have no support for it in the model. So whats the point of modeling our
exchange format this way? Yes we might need it sometime in the future but
then we should implement it when we need it.

I also find it weird that we really need to implement two parsers for this.
More work and more code to maintain.

The uuids will go for a new Identifier property for version 2.2 and make
things less verbose btw.

Lars



> > Your use of DataValueSet here is very welcome - as you know I have
> > been advocating this for a while.  Would be nice also to persist it to
> > provide audit (and simplify dtavalue store) but that is maybe too much
> > for now.
>
> Yes, that would have to be the next topic. Let's see if anyone else take
> the bait :)
>
> Jo
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