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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>New property_template_093_20070425.xml</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1589" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Hi Rick,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Small clarification.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>In IPP, Semantic Model, WIMS, and the Counter MIB, we changed the</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>property name 'XxxDescription' to 'XxxInfo' (e.g., 'printer-info' in IPP),</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>because there's an IPP and WIMS/SM group of properties called the</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Description Group (as opposed to Status Group and some others)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>within the PrintService object and the name conflation was confusing.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>You might want to follow this more modern PWG practice for your</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>property name - keeping XxxDefinition for your XML template is fine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=847384504-27042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>- Ira</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><FONT size=2>Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)<BR>Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG<BR>Blue Roof Music / High North Inc<BR>PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839<BR>phone: +1-906-494-2434<BR>email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com</FONT> </P> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-pdm@pwg.org [mailto:owner-pdm@pwg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Richard_Landau@Dell.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pdm@pwg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> PDM> New property_template_093_20070425.xml<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I uploaded a revised property template file to the FTP site.  </FONT></P> <P><A href="ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/pdm/Objects/property_template_093_20070425.xml"><U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/pdm/Objects/property_template_093_20070425.xml</FONT></U></A> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>In this, I changed the tag for the property <Description> element to <Defintion>.  I hope that this makes the intended purpose clearer.  The use of the word "description" for both the XML element and the name of a property was confusing.  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I added a few words to clarify, I hope, some of the other elements.  And I changed the file type to XML.  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Talk to you Monday.  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>rick</FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>----------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard_Landau(at)dell(dot)com, Stds & System Mgt Architecture, CTO Office</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>+1-512-728-9023, One Dell Way, RR5-3, MS RR5-09, Round Rock, TX 78682</FONT> </P></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR> Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR> Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.1/776 - Release Date: 4/25/2007 12:19 PM<BR> </FONT> </P>