PWG> RE: 12 Noon EST 30 Nov WIMS Telcom - Ira's Relax NG topic

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Nov 28 2005 - 20:44:53 EST

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    Hi,
     
    Also topics for Wednesday:
    - review of WIMS Enterprise Sequence Diagram posted on 17 November for spec
    - review of WSDL/2.0 for WIMS just posted this evening
     
    Cheers,
    - Ira
     

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: wamwagner@comcast.net [mailto:wamwagner@comcast.net]
    Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:40 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira; 'pwg@pwg.org'
    Subject: 12 Noon EST 30 Nov WIMS Telcom - Ira's Relax NG topic

     
    We can add Ira's observation to the agenda for this Wednesday, 12 Noon.
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    I think that Harry will not be available for this week's concalls. So SC
    discussion may be a while off. However, the quoted message apperas to be in
    response to a proposal to extend W3C XML Schema to accomodate some problems
    found by the IETF XCON WG. I suggest that the first questions is to what
    extent do these problems apply to PWG Schema.
     
    With respect to other WIMS WG topics:
     
    a. Minutes: ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/minutes/wims_051116.pdf
    <ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/minutes/wims_051116.pdf>
    b. Abstracting the WIMS protocol spec.
     
    However, if we do not have a reasonable attedance, there would be little
    sense in discussing these rather significant topics.
     
    Bill Wagner
     

    -------------- Original message --------------

    > Hi folks,
    >
    > Topic for next WIMS telecon and next PWG Steering Committee telecon.
    >
    >
    > [The context is describing constraints in schema for XML documents]
    >
    > Below is a thought-provoking comment recently from Tim Bray (Textuality)
    > about the misuse of W3C XML Schema in IETF specs where ISO Relax NG would
    > be more appropriate.
    >
    > Tim's _first_ sentence (not quoted below) was:
    >
    > "My input: The proposal is an attempt to work around one of the many known

    >
    > limitations of W3C XML Schema. It also seems to increase the complexity
    > and
    > decrease the readability of your XML."
    >
    > It's worth considering whether our PWG standard SM/1.0 printing schema and

    > the new WIMS imaging system schema! should be translated to Relax NG.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > - Ira
    >
    >
    > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    > PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    > phone: +1-906-494-2434
    > email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org]On
    > Behalf Of Phil Shafer
    > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:17 AM
    > To: netconf@ops.ietf.org
    > Subject: Tim Bray on RelaxNG
    >
    >
    > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/xml-dir/current/msg00108.html
    >
    > As a general practice, I would advise the IETF to specify XML
    > languages using the simpler, more general, more flexible, more
    > interoperable RelaxNG, which is also an ISO standard by the
    > way. For example, Atompub did this in draft-ietf-atompub-format-11,
    > whi! ch is now a proposed standard and waiting for its RFC number.
    > In particular, the kind of extensibility you want for XCON would
    > be easily modeled in RelaxNG without the need for this kind of
    > egregious kludge. -Tim Bray
    >
    >
    > Can we revisit the use of Relax-NG for netconf (before we start
    > resorting to egregious kludges ;^)?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Phil
    >
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