Markus, Kevin,
Yes, I agree we can try to improve this. Perhaps we could just add pointers to lists of output models and search/inventory templates in the index.xml file? I prefer not to create a big file with everything, as we did in the first alias.txt. The idea of this new index.xml was to basically just list the conceptual schemas and provide pointers where clients could get additional data related to each schema.
Best Regards, -- Renato
On 21 Jul 2008 at 11:18, Markus Döring wrote:
Kevin, I fully agree. The old-style alias.txt on rs.tdwg.org contained a section that listed known models and templates at the bottom of the file: http://rs.tdwg.org/tapir/cns/alias.txt
The new xml based CNS seems to be about concepts only, but maybe we can extend the index.xml to list models and templates too? http://rs.tdwg.org/tapir/cns/index.xml
Markus
On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:59, Kevin Richards wrote:
I may be missing something, but is there some way to "discover", or search for existing response strucutres, query templates, output models? The reuse of these structures is obviously a key part of TAPIR, and hence the discovery of them.
However, the tools look very cool and very useful - hopefully we get a whole bunch of keen people creating useful structures.
Kevin