Re: sming wg agenda proposal

[Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

Hi!

Andy> [...] I would also like to add clauses that make it easier for
Andy> tools to generate XML Schema documents from SMIv3 MIBs:
  
Andy> XML-NAMESPACE "<URI>" would be a clause added to the MODULE-IDENTITY
Andy> macro to associate a namespace with the MIB module.

I think I'd like this. ;-)

Andy> XML-NAME "<string>" would be a clause added to the ATTRIBUTE clause
Andy> (or higher level) of a TYPE or VAR macro to associate an XML element
Andy> name with an object.  If absent, then the object descriptor would
Andy> define the element name.  

Could you please explain or give an example why/where this XML-NAME
deviation from the descriptor would be useful? In general, I would prefer
to have "less chances for exceptions".

Andy> There are probably other details that need to added to
Andy> unambiguously convert an SMIv3 MIB to an XSD, to be determined
Andy> later.

 -frank