Re: [emergency-cap-profiles] Definition of "Profile"

["Art Botterell" <ABott@so.cccounty.us>]

Jacob, what is this "accepted definition of an XML profile" to which you
refer?

- Art


>>> Jacob Westfall <jake@jpw.biz> 12/29/2008 2:41 PM >>>
> I think very definitely the answer to that one would be "no."  What
> else?

I'm in agreement with this.  However it means the accepted definition
of an XML profile, which usually results in a new namespace, does not
apply, and that's why a good profile definition is needed.  So following
this course of action, to start, some criteria to help define a CAP
profile.  Just spit-balling here, please remove/change/add to this
list.

Some things a profile "cannot" do are:
- establish a new namespace
- add, make changes, or create subsets of the base CAP schema, its
elements, and enumerated/defined values
- extend a CAP message, in the conventional XML sense, through the use
of namespaced schemas

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