[MOBY] [MOBY-l] Input XML syntax

[Ken Steube]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> The articleName
> attribute belongs to the Simple/Collection element, not to the
> queryInput element.  This is because in a single invocation of the
> service (i.e. a single queryInput) there may be multiple named
> parameters of the Simple/Collection type.  thus the queryInput itself is
> not named, but the articles it contains are.

Much better. The reason I thought they went on the queryInput
was that MOBY-Client05.cgi puts them there (a little something to fix).

> > 3) Is it OK for a queryInput to have multiple Simples as shown below?  I
> > think not...they should be separate queryInputs or should be in a
> > collection.
> >
> > <queryInput>
> >   <Simple>...</Simple>
> >   <Simple>...</Simple>
> > </queryInput>
>
> no, this is not allowed.  In the CommonSubs module, I do make allowances
> for this error by passing an array back from parsing the content of a
> Simple article, but it *should* always be an array of length 1, and in
> my example services I enforce this by taking only element $array[0] from
> the array and using that as the input.  Whether or not other service
> providers will allow for this is up to them, but I would discourage it,
> since it isn't correct message structure.

Maybe you should take $array[0] in CommonSubs.pm and enforce the
proper style.  If we allow people to do it wrong, then they will do so
and it will get messy.

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Ken Steube            steube at sdsc.edu
San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD
San Diego, California             USA