[X3D-Public] Contour2D containerField analysis

Joe D Williams joedwil at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 3 08:41:26 PDT 2013


> But I guess this was already discussed, that's why Don didn't want 
> us to
get him started on that :)

SIncere Thanks for letting that rest quietly. However, I have abstract 
trust that schemification could somehow allow putting all these 
considerations into authortime.
Thanks and Best,
Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michalis Kamburelis" <michalis.kambi at gmail.com>
To: "Joe D Williams" <joedwil at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV)" <brutzman at nps.navy.mil>; "Vincent 
Marchetti" <vmarchetti at ameritech.net>; "Cad3D working group" 
<Cad at web3d.org>; "X3D Graphics public mailing list" 
<x3d-public at web3d.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] Contour2D containerField analysis


> Joe D Williams wrote:
>>> Don't' get me started /don't get me started on that! No further
>>> discussion needed there.
>>
>>
>> Right, all you gotta do to fully step up to XML Schema and get rid 
>> of
>> containerField :) or else to make sure that if the containerField 
>> is not
>> there we give a suitable default, and that if it is there then is 
>> it a
>> correct choice. That way we don't need masses of wrappers in our 
>> user
>> code, like if we actually transcoded literally and did not rely on 
>> a
>> schema to advise the processor about structures and content models.
>
> Completely getting rid of containerField will require changes, at 
> least around Collision.proxy and MetadataSet.value definitions. 
> Right now, using these fields requires you to use containerField, as 
> you put there nodes that in other circumstances are attached to 
> different fields. Getting rid of containerField will probably 
> require inventing some new nodes to make things unambiguous even 
> without containerField.
>
> BTW, I completely agree, I'm all after getting rid of 
> containerField. But I guess this was already discussed, that's why 
> Don didn't want us to get him started on that :)
>
> Regards,
> Michalis 




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