[omniORB] need help with IDL

[Rick Ethington]

Hello all,

i am looking for some advice about how to express a data type
using idl. the type is similar to the nvlist with some
differences.

we refer to it as a key value set, it is a set of key value pairs.
in our case the keys are 32 bit integers and the values have
various types. the types can be interger, unicode string, boolean,
integer range (structure containing 2 integers), or another
key value set. arrays of each of the types are also permitted.

most of the types are readily represented, but the ability
of a kvset to contain a kvset has us puzzled. the documentation
says something about recursive types not being supported. not
sure if that was only for 'any' or not.

any help would be appreicated. the type in question is the
kvset type used by the ECTF(http://www.ectf.org/) S.100
interoperability aggreement.

thanks

Rick