ISSUE: packaging of the font interchange/mapping

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

This is a peripheral issue on the font mapping "file".

ISSUE:  How is the font mapping information packaged?

DISCUSSION:  It has been resolved [1] that it should be in XML format.  [1] 
discusses it as a "file".  Is it in a separate standalone file?  Or will it 
be a new defined subsection of the current XCF format, e.g., a "<prelude>" 
element or some such?   If it is a separate standalone file, then we 
potentially have (at least) two separate XML-based companion files 
associated with each CGM instance.

OPTIONS:
1.) separate stand-alone file;
2.) subsection within the XCF file;
3.) other

RECOMMENDATION:  #2, define it as a new subsection within the XCF -- within 
a new 'header' or 'prelude' or <whatever> element.

-Lofton.

At 10:29 AM 1/7/2008 -0700, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>At 02:49 PM 1/6/2008 -0800, Cruikshank, David W wrote:
>>Font mapping will be specified using an XML DTD
>
>[...] the Issues matrix:
>[1] 
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26654/WebCGM-2_1_issues_resolution_matrix_V3.doc