[MOBY-l] rules for passing "foreign" stuff with MOBY

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

   No, you got the question just fine. I just did not realize, the simple 
man that I am (! and new to BioMOBY!), that MOBY is only a wrapper for the 
result payload and does not care whether it's in some particular format or 
the other, even less about floats and integers and strings.

  But the general idea holds true: since an XML Schema Definition is used 
instead of the more weakly typed , non-XML syntax-ed and darn cryptic DTD 
language, you can define the objects more strictly in terms of datatypes. 
That was the main thing that I was fishing for, A) that you could do this 
with the definition language used (i.e. XSD), and B) you are aware of it 
and plan on doing so. Got my answer right there, so I am happy. Thanks.

                   Mummi

PS picked up the O'Reilly book 'XML in a Nutshell' at ISMB, hence my 
recent XML-interest!


On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 07:05 PM, mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca wrote:

> not yet.  For the objects that we define as "MOBY", we will almost 
> certainly put that into the XSD when we get around to building correct 
> schemas for our objects, but anything else has only a wrapper indicating 
> what type of object it is, and a payload that *should not be parsed* by 
> MOBY, and may
> for that matter not be XML at all.
>
> Or did I misunderstand your question?
>
> M
>
>
> Gudmundur Arni Thorisson wrote:
>
>> Just a thought here: does the current BioMOBY XML schema in general not 
>> distinguish between the various datatypes (aka weakly typed) such as 
>> integers, strings, floats and such? An example that springs to mind is 
>> things like E-values(float) and deflines(string) from the ubiqutious 
>> BLAST query.
>>
>> Mummi, CSHL
>>
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