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Issue – DP3: Querying Templates Interim Consensus: Agreement to provide the ability to query a server that implements the XCON protocols to determine which templates it understands. Additional discussion, but no consensus, around the ability to query a server about a particular template to retrieve a description -- probably an XML document, but possibly in some other form -- of that template. The idea behind this functionality would be enabling clients to interact with templates that they don't natively understand. By extracting the variables from the template description and presenting them to the user in some format that allows manipulation of their values, all clients can work with all templates, even those that were not defined when the client was developed. Is this an important property? Proposal: Yes, this property is important for templates to remain flexible. |