Re: xAP-Media Schema

["twitty_davis" <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Patrick,

When you refer to sub-blocks, is this a formal part of the xAP message
spec or is it a way of helping create the schemas (kind of like
include statements or something) and not really part of the spec?  I'm
trying to become more proficient with xAP and I didn't see anything in
the spec about this so I'm wondering if I'm missing something?

Mick

--- In xAP_developer@xxxxxxx, "Patrick" <patrick@...>
wrote:
>
> --- 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
>