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Subject: RE: [emergency] RE: OGC UoM Best Practices guidance


Just a bit more clarification of what I mean by "extra work"
 
If I were using a Java SAX parser,  I would have to go to my Handler implementations and implement the attribute reading functions that I currently leave unimplemented.  Further I would have to coordinate the results with the End Tag and Start tag functions in a way that that is much more complicated than just processing content on an end tag and setting variables on a start tag. 
 
It is not impossible, or even necessarily that hard to do.  It just adds another level of complexity for screwing up.  It may also add real value, but we are going to have to show that clearly, if we really want acceptance.  I we just build it, they will not come. 
 
R/s
 
Gary A. Ham
Senior Research Scientist
Battelle Memorial Institute
540-288-5611 (office)
703-869-6241 (cell)
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From: Ham, Gary A [mailto:hamg@BATTELLE.ORG]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:11 AM
To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [emergency] RE: OGC UoM Best Practices guidance

I see the logic.  Reading it, however, brings out the journeyman developer response of: "this is too &^%$$# much work and too easy to screw up in my code."   This will take real, by the numbers, "UOM for Dummies" documentation for about 85% of the folks working in our domain. And that may be generous.   If we follow this we are going to need lots of very clear examples.  Especially, since it would require us to break our current rule of avoiding attributes as much as possible.
 
 
Gary A. Ham
Senior Research Scientist
Battelle Memorial Institute
540-288-5611 (office)
703-869-6241 (cell)
"You would be surprised what you can accomplish when you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman
 


From: Carl Reed OGC Account [mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:43 PM
To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [emergency] RE: OGC UoM Best Practices guidance

As I mentioned.
 
 
Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
OGC
 
The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically
 
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