RE: another WebCGM spec glitch

[Kevin O'Kane <kevoka@AUTO-TROL.com>]

Ignore my previous e-mail. We generate all WebCGM SF's in lower case only
strings. 

As for the second question: I prefer the all lowercase descriptions from the
CM.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lofton Henderson [SMTP:lofton@rockynet.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:30 PM
> To:	cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:	another WebCGM spec glitch
> 
> CGM Open Members (esp vendors) --
> 
> Please consider and reply ASAP -- WebCGM 1.0 Second Release is dependent 
> upon answers.
> 
> Now that it is clearly specified that WebCGM SF strings are **case 
> sensitive**, we have a little cleanup to do.
> 
> The content model of section 3.3 disagrees with the individual sections 
> 3.2.1.1 - 3.2.1.4 and sections 3.2.2.1 - 3.2.2.8.  Everything in the 
> Content Model is lower case, and the sections tend to use "camel 
> case".  (Both the content model and the sections are normatively
> referenced 
> from the PPF, so we need to clean it up.).
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> CM			Sections
> ====================
> layer			(same)
> grobject		(same)
> para			(same)
> subpara		(same)	
> 
> region			(same)
> viewcontext		ViewContext
> linkuri			LinkURI
> layername		LayerName
> layerdescription	LayerDescription	
> screentip		ScreenTip
> name			(same)
> content		(same)
> 
> It would be nice to pick a consistent style (like all lower case, or all 
> camel case).  But more important is:  what has been implemented?  I
> suspect 
> that viewer implementations rely on case-insensitive (and if I were an 
> viewer implementor, I would continue to be forgiving, regardless of what 
> the spec says).
> 
> What about content?  What have people generated so far?  (MetaCheck will 
> not be forgiving, so we may as well preserve validity of as much content
> as 
> possible.)
> 
> Please send your votes and comments as soon as possible.
> 
> Regards,
> -Lofton.
> 
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