Re: [Taverna-users] XML splitters

[Stuart O. <so...@cs...>]

Simon Felix wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just created some workflows once again. It’d be nice if I didn’t 
> have to create XML input- and output-splitters all the time. Is there 
> a reason why I have to create them (apart from technical, 
> Taverna-internal ones)? Is anyone calling web services and is not 
> using the splitters?
>
> Because if no one ever uses web services without splitters I think it 
> would make sense to integrate them (at least level 0/1) directly in 
> the activity. That would make workflows easier to construct and 
> workflows would look simpler/cleaner too.
>
Yes - this is exactly what we've wanted to do for some time, and is on 
our long term plan. I want to modify the WSDL Service so that it is 
configurable and only exposes ports that relate to the parts of the 
schema that are wanted. Along with this I'd like to replace the reliance 
on Axis for the schema parsing, with XSom being a potential alternative.

thanks,
Stuart