IPP> Re: MOD OLD NEW Issue: Contradictory NLO req

IPP> Re: MOD OLD NEW Issue: Contradictory NLO req

Manros, Carl-Uno B cmanros at cp10.es.xerox.com
Tue Oct 13 19:28:29 EDT 1998


All,

I am hesitant to cut things out of the specs at this stage. What is the
reaction among people who have already launched or are close to launch
products?

Carl-Uno 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Parra [mailto:HPARRA at novell.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 8:40 AM
> To: ipp at pwg.org
> Subject: IPP> Re: MOD OLD NEW Issue: Contradictory NLO req
> 
> 
> I'm with Carl on this one.  The current mechanism for 
> specifying and deriving the natural language of a given 
> attribute is error prone (and in my opinion, an overkill - 
> we've supported multi-language print environments for some 
> time now without the capability for overriding language ant 
> the granularity described in IPP and haven't once received a 
> hard requirement from our customers to do so.)  Whatever we 
> can do to make it simpler, I'm in favor of.
> 
> -Hugo 
> 
> >>> "Carl Kugler" <kugler at us.ibm.com> 10/09 1:54 PM >>>
> Here is a proposal for simplifying IPP's natural language 
> model.  It's basically an elaboration of a suggestion made by 
> Keith Moore in 
> http://www.egroups.com/list/ipp/3644.html 
> The idea is simple.  Eliminate the implicit language form of 
> text and name attributes.  
> 
> Specifically:
> 1.  Eliminate "attributes-natural-language" operation attribute.
> 2.  Eliminate "attributes-natural-language" job object attribute.
> 3.  Eliminate "textWithoutLanguage" attribute syntax.  
> 4.  Eliminate "nameWithoutLanguage" attribute syntax.
> 5.  To allow client to specify desired natural language for 
> Printer-generated text from multi-lingual Printers, add a 
> new, OPTIONAL, "natural-language-requested" attribute to 
> override Printer's "natural-language-configured".
> 
> Now every text and name attribute has an explicitly specified 
> natural language.
> 
> Advantages:
> 1.  Constructing responses is simpler.  No need to consider a 
> hierarchy of implicit language contexts.  Printer never needs 
> to convert from xWithoutLanguage to xWithLanguage.
> 2.  Interpreting messages is simpler.  Currently the same 
> message can take many forms, depending on use of redundant NLOs, etc.
> 2.  Comparing name and text values is simpler.  No need to 
> search a three-level precedence hierarchy to find the 
> language of a value being compared.  Name and text values can 
> be compared out of context.
> 3.  Implementation is simpler.  Fewer attribute syntaxes 
> required.  12 fewer attributes have multiple syntaxes.  One 
> less attribute in a special, reserved, required position.
> 4.  Bandwidth savings.  Using the examples from Section 9 of PRO:
>   9.1: save 30 bytes
>   9.2: save 23 bytes
>   9.3: save 30 bytes
>   9.4: save 30 bytes
>   9.5: save 37 bytes
>   9.6: save 37 bytes
>   9.7: save 60 bytes.
> 5.  No loss in functionality over the original model.    
> 6.  Easier to specify and understand.
> 
> Disadvantage:
> 1.  Reduced job security for IPP consultants ;-)
> 
>     -Carl
> 
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