Re: [entity-resolution] Spec comments to process

["Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com>]

On 21 Aug 2003 Paul Grosso wrote:

> At 23:05 2003 08 20 +0100, Anthony B. Coates wrote:
> >** Reply to message from Normand_Montour@lgs.com on Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:28:38
> >-0400
> >
> >> Norm,
> >>    about point no. 2 in the technical area (schema):  My thoughts would be
> >> that
> >> at least the DTD and the W3C Schema should be normative, but not exclusive
> >> of any other one...
> >
> >That said, if XCatalogs relied on RELAX NG, I wouldn't be able to deploy them
> >on any project I work on.  Also, as I remember, we decided that schemata of any
> >form were not necessary for XCatalogs, just useful for some users.  In that
> >case, I would suggest doing DTD and XML Schema and RELAX NG, *none* of which
> >are normative.  Any takers?
> 
> 
> I think I tend to agree.  The prose should be normative.
> I'm not sure I see the point of making any of the schema
> normative.

I agree as well. In fact, this was issue one in our issues document, 
that was decided way back in 2001. See http://www.oasis-
open.org/committees/entity/issues.html. Unless someone has a good 
reason to reopen this discussion, I propose we not.

Lauren