"include" specification clarification
rakhimov opened this issue · 1 comments
As it is currently specified, the custom "include" specification is completely redundant.
The difference between native XML directives and the custom opsa-mef include
is worded to be only in that opsa-mef doesn't require the file to be physically included within context
but "loaded".
This feature actually makes automatic validation with schema extremely hard;
that's why both XML entity include and XInclude actually physically include the snippet.
Given today's availability of computing power and memory,
the reasoning for the custom "include" feature seems outdated.
The current XML tools can handle opsa-mef models with 1 million basic events/gates with 1 GiB memory without much problem.
Alternatively, conforming tools should be able to accept multiple files at once for analysis.
Why should the whole model be described with a single file?
If this custom feature was intended to mimic the run/analysis configuration file for software
(that is, providing a set of input files),
then it should be specified that way.