Re: [jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-4602) Null values are not synchronized in http mode

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on Feb 04, 2012; 8:14pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/jira-Created-OFBIZ-4602-Null-values-are-not-synchronized-in-http-mode-tp4145573p4357813.html

Thanks Paul,

But once again, please put directly your comments in the Jiras issues.
It's  much easier to follow the convo later than to have this, either in OFBiz dev ML, or as it seems you did in the nabble forum,
which is actually nothing else than an "easier to use" duplicate of the OFBiz dev ML (I put quote because most of us actually prefer
to use an email client which has much features, like folders filters, etc.

I put myself your comment in the Jira for this time (did already for another one) and will continue the convo there.

HTH

Jacques

From: "Paul Foxworthy" <[hidden email]>

> Hi all,
>
> There is a canonical way from the XML standards to express that an XML
> element is null. Rather than reserving a special value for the data within
> the element, there's a special *attribute* xsi:nil. Schemas can define a
> corresponding nillable attribute to say it is possible for an element to use
> the xsi:nil attribute.
>
> Given the problems we've been having with this Jira issue, would using
> xsi:nil be a good idea? The only disadvantage I can see is that this
> solution only works when we are serializing and deserializing to and from
> XML. We would need to solve the problem all over again for other
> serialization formats.
>
> See http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#Nils and
> http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/xml/schema/ch11_03.htm .
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul Foxworthy
>
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