[DDI-SRG] DDI Profile for applications

[Wendy Thomas]

This was one of the original intents of the DDIProfile which if I recall 
were:

1) Inform people submitting documentation to a system what objects were 
supported, required, or had specific values

2) Inform people submitting to an Archive the required or recommended 
content of their documentation

3) To inform users of ones documentation regarding any special handling of 
objects (defaults, unused elements)

I think the point is we probably need to beef up the documentation on 
DDIProfile...which is a documentation bug.

Wendy


On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Pascal Heus wrote:

> All:
> This is just an idea regarding DDI Profile but I'm thinking that
> profiles could also be used by application to describe the set of DDI 3
> elements they can consume/process or to accompany instances they
> produce. This could be useful when you need for example submit DDI to a
> service or a tools and need to prepare your metadata ((this becomes a
> bit the equivalent oa WSDL for DDI), to know what is the potential
> content to the tool output as you may want to further process it, or
> possibly for application to application metadata exchange. I don't think
> this has a direct impact on the schema (though we may come up with
> additional elements/attributes for machine processing), this idea could
> simply be integrated in the documentation. Will also file this in Mantis.
> best
> *P
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