Fwd: Fw: RE: use of GML in OASIS xAL

[Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

To: max.voskob@paradise.net.nz
From: "'Sam A. Bacharach'" <sbacharach@opengeospatial.org >
Date: 12/07/2005 09:09AM
Subject: RE: use of GML in OASIS xAL

From: sbacharach@opengeospatial.org
To: max.voskob@paradise.net.nz
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:09:44 -0500
Subject: RE: use of GML in OASIS xAL


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Max,

We are winnowing through a 7 mb zipfile to dig out the xsd documents that will be of most interest to you -- not so heartless as to send the whole thing and let you go exploring.

Expect it later this week.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Voskob [ mailto:max.voskob@paradise.net.nz]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 3:58 PM
To: 'Sam A. Bacharach'
Cc: 'KUMAR, RAM'
Subject: RE: use of GML in OASIS xAL

Thanx Sam,

We are looking forward to the info.

Please, keep it simple and informal at this stage. We just want to get the ball rolling.

Cheers,
Max?

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam A. Bacharach [mailto:sbacharach@opengeospatial.org]?
Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2005 08:07
To: Max Voskob
Cc: Carl Reed
Subject: RE: use of GML in OASIS xAL

Max,

I have finally located a member that has something for you to look at.

As you note, that specific schema or schema fragment is not present in the specification itself.

When I get the document I will send it to you, but I must caution that this is not a 'finished' piece of work.  In fact your evaluation -- what does it not enable that you need? -- would be very helpful.  I am working with Carl Reed, our Executive Directo
r of the Specification Program, to assemble a small team that can respond to your input.

We would like to work it up and then pass it through both organizations for approval at the same time -- yours as part of the xAL specification, and ours as one more 'schema fragment' that us useful as a plug in to other non-OGC schemas.

Regards,

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Voskob [mailto:max.voskob@paradise.net.nz ]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:31 PM
To: sbacharach@opengeospatial.org
Subject: use of GML in OASIS xAL


Hi Sam,

I'd like to get some assistance from OGC on behalf of OASIS CIQ TC ( http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ciq).

xAL specification ( http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php) provides means for describing postal and physical addresses. Also, we have a requirement for expressing geospatial infromation as part of an address.
Currently, we have a container that references the entire GML namespace leaving it to the adopters to decide how they apply GML there.
We'd like to make it a easiers for adopters and reference appropriate GML structures directly, instead of allowing to use anything from GML.

Unfortuanately, we do not have any GML expertise and my ad-hoc approach to this didn't result in a meaningful solution. Would it be possible to give us some assistance in this area?

Kind regards,
Max Voskob