[SED-ML-discuss] Request for Comments: IDL definition for SED-ML processing

[Andrew M. <ak....@au...>]

Hi all,

I have created an IDL file describing an API for accessing SED-ML files. 
If there is sufficient interest, this could become a language and 
implementation neutral specification of a SED-ML API (obviously, each 
language developer would need to decide how to adapt the API to a 
particular language to make it as idiomatic as possible, but this could 
be in addition to the standard interfaces wherever possible).

No implementation of the API has been created yet; I expect that the 
implementing this could result in changes as implementation experience 
often shows where changes are required.

Note that this version refers to dom::Element and dom::NodeList, which 
is part of the W3C DOM API, and cellml_api::MathList, which is defined as:

   /**
    * A collection of math.
    */
   interface MathList : XPCOM::IObject
   {
     /**
      * The length of the collection.
      */
     readonly attribute unsigned long length;

     /**
      * Tests for the existance of an element in the set.
      * @param x The element to test for.
      * @return true if the element is present, or false otherwise.
      */
     boolean contains(in MathMLElement x);

     /**
      * Returns a CellMLElementIterator that can be used to iterate 
through the
      * elements. The iteration order is undefined.
      */
     MathMLElementIterator iterate();
   };

I could move MathList into another IDL file called something more 
language agnostic for the final version.

Best wishes,
Andrew