Re: xAP-Media Schema

["Patrick" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In xAP_developer@xxxxxxx, Kevin Hawkins
<yahoogroupskh@...> wrote:
>
> An interesting idea...  We have previously discussed an inheritance
type
> model for schema either to create subsets or supersets. There is also
a
> need for some versioning control / identification in schema
definitions.
>
> Whilst talking with a lot of commercial developers there are two types
> of devices that they typically always want to be able to control - the
> basic I/O devices (well served by BSC) and then AV/media players. As a
> third I often see lighting featuring but that is fairly well served
by BSC.
>

Sadly I can't see the proposed schema (Yahoo groups seems to have the
stripped the attachment in the web view of the group) but I wonder if
sub-blocks might help here? There is obviously overlap between, say,
an audio and video schema and the need to control a "transport"
(stop,
play) and "listening settings" (volume etc.) - perhaps these are
best
expressed as sub-blocks which can be reused across multiple schema?
Cheers,
Patrick