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Behalf Of david.meredith@stfc.ac.uk said: Yes, after being introduced to your schema in the last WG meeting I think the flattened style may be preferable, especially for rendering GLUE entities that can exist standalone and have their own lifetime that is not tied to an associated/parent entity,
Some objects may simply not be published by a given information provider - for example if an implementation publishes Datastore objects but not StorageManager you may have a problem if Datastore is required to be a child of StorageManager. For the LDAP rendering we made the objects self-contained - all references can be followed either by querying for an ID or a ForeignKey. If objects don't exist then references may not resolve but it isn't intrinsically inconsistent. Stephen -- Scanned by iCritical.