[Os-project-managers] Quick question about GeneralFileHeader

[Kipp Martin]

Hi Gus:
> 
> quick question about the complex type GeneralFileHeader in OSgL. Should 
> the five elements <name>, <source>, <fileCreatedBy>, <description> and 
> <licence> be required to follow a sequency model, or is the order not 
> important?

In the current OSiL order does matter. The sequence is <name>, <source>, 
<description>.  I see no reason to deviate. If we now require  the 
sequence to be <name>, <source>, <fileCreatedBy>, <description> and 
<licence> older files will still parse since <fileCreatedBy> is  not 
required.

I think making the sequence follow a specific makes sense here. For 
example, the first element should be <name> if it is present.

That said, I don't feel extremley strong about this.

Thanks



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