RE: [cgmo-webcgm] WebCGM 2.0 DTD?

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

At 11:43 AM 12/13/2005 -0700, Robert Orosz wrote:
>[...]
>Regarding question 1, there are extra linefeed characters at the beginning
>and end of the document (perhaps they were added somehow in the process of
>emailing) which if you are not including in your line count then I agree
>with you.  To summarize:
>
>i) Remove first line feed character and next two lines (XML declaration and
>DOCTYPE declaration for a total of three lines).
>ii) Remove last two line feed characters plus last line (line containing
>only the '>' character) and remove the ']' character at the end of the
>previous line.

Done, and sent to Sharon for posting.  Probably will be done some time this 
week.


>Regarding question 2 I think that only OASIS standard would warrant that
>change.  The document has not been voted on by OASIS as a whole, only the
>WebCGM TC.

I agree with you and Dave -- leave it as hyphen.  (Until W3C Rec and/or 
OASIS Standard).

Cheers,
-Lofton.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:40 AM
>To: Robert Orosz; cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [cgmo-webcgm] WebCGM 2.0 DTD?
>
>
>At 09:46 AM 12/13/2005 -0700, Robert Orosz wrote:
> >Lofton,
> >
> >Now that CS text is finished and published, shouldn't the DTD be published
> >also?
>
>We are apparently on the same wavelength today -- I was just working on it
>and was about to mail this to the TC...
>
>QUESTION 1 (important):  The attached file is exactly as extracted from the
>end of Ch.4.  What I'm going to put at the below URL is the attached file
>except:
>i.) remove the first two lines
>ii.) remove the last line and the "]" from the 2nd last line.
>Agreed?
>
> >It is not at the URI listed in the CS text.
> >
> >http://docs.oasis-open.org/webcgm/v2.0/webcgm20.dtd
> >
> >Validating parsers will need to load this before they parse the XCF.
>
>QUESTION 2 (minor):  Section 4.2 contains:
>a.) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD WebCGM 2.0//EN"
>b.) <!DOCTYPE webcgm PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD WebCGM 2.0//EN"
>"http://docs.oasis-open.org/webcgm/v2.0/webcgm20.dtd";>
>
>Should the hyphen (-) in the PUBLIC identifier, now be a plus
>(+)?  According to ERH, "If a non-ISO standards body has approved the DTD,
>its name begins with a plus sign.  If no standards body has approved the
>DTD, its name begins with a hyphen."  This is a small and inconsequential
>detail, but does its status in OASIS warrant "approved the DTD"?  Or would
>only "OASIS Standard" warrant that?
>
>Regards,
>-Lofton.