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Subject: RE: [cgmo-webcgm] XML 1.0 third edition versus fifth
Lofton, The main reason that I brought this up is because XML 1.0 (Third Edition) was superseded by XML 1.0 (Fourth Edition). The fourth edition in turn was superceded by the fifth edition. I'm not sure if the W3C pub rules allow you to make a normative reference to another W3C Recommendation that is already superceded at the time your publish a working draft of your own Recommendation. BTW, in section 1.2 we list the fourth edition as a normative reference. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/drafts/current-editor-21/WebCGM21-Intro.ht ml#norm-ref The least we could do is settle on a single edition. I don't have time right now to look at the changes between XML 1.0 (Third Edition) and the later editions. Perhaps this could be one of my afternoon "homework" assignments next week. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:55 PM To: CGM Open WebCGM TC Cc: David Cruikshank Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] XML 1.0 third edition versus fifth At 11:15 AM 4/22/2009 -0600, Robert Orosz wrote: >BTW, the first bullet in [3] below mentions XML 1.0 3rd Edition. XML 1.0 is >now at 5th Edition. Ah, the perennial question: upgrade to latest Edition in references? Usually it is harmless. But I seem to recall there having been controversy in the XML community about whether some stuff proposed for these later "editions" of 1.0 were really just errata corrections, or on the other hand were changes of functionality. The key question: does it (5th versus 3rd) impose any significant changed conformance requirements on WebCGM, that we should care about? (Be aware that WebCGM already automatically tracks the latest version of Unicode.) See for example the third paragraph here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#status Volunteer? Does someone want to assess whether upgrading to 5th edition is "safe" for WebCGM? (This, btw, is probably not a technical change if we do it, so we can do it at 2nd LCWD or later.) -Lofton. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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