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Subject: RE: [emergency] HAVE comments - explicitly identifying the normative parts in the data dictionary
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mary McRae > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 08:56 > To: 'Alessandro Triglia'; 'Lee Tincher' > Cc: 'Dwarkanath, Sukumar'; emergency@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [emergency] HAVE comments - explicitly > identifying the normative parts in the data dictionary > > I'm afraid that you've read much more into my note than was intended. > > > > Here the language from the TC Process: > > All schema and XML instances, whether by inclusion or by > reference, including fragments of such, must be well formed. > All expressions must be valid. Each schema and XML instance > that is part of the specification must be delivered in its > own separate plain text file. > > > > The intent is that oftentimes errors occur when > cutting/pasting schemas into a document - characters may be > transposed to other symbols, bits lost, etc. It's also > extremely difficult for an end user to set up their > environment if they have to cut/paste the schema out of a > word processing document or worse, a PDF. So the thing that > is actually parsable is the normative version, if there is > one. Note that the DITA TC produces its specification in both > DTD and XSD formats - the DTD version is explicitly declared > as normative. The TC can always decide that a schema isn't > normative, but they can't decide that the version of the > schema printed in the document is normative and the separate > text file is informational only. Thanks, Mary. I still believe that it is very desirable for a standard if a certain normative provision occurs only once, regardless of the language in which it is expressed--XML Schema, plain English, or dictionary entries. I see that OASIS doesn't require this, but I believe it's a very good thing. Alessandro
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