RE: WebCGM Implementors -- IMPT!

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

layerdesc is fine.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ulrich Laesche [SMTP:ulaesche@allegria.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 22, 2001 10:54 AM
> To:	Lofton Henderson; cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:	RE: WebCGM Implementors -- IMPT!
> 
> I am fine with "layerdesc".
> 
> Ulrich
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:48 AM
> > To: cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: WebCGM Implementors -- IMPT!
> >
> >
> > WebCGM Implementors --
> >
> > (Attn especially Forrest, Don, Dieter, Ulrich, Kevin, Lofton)
> >
> > Please respond asap, and make sure to copy Dave Cruikshank.
> >
> > Today is the day we are finishing the Second Release text and
> > forwarding it
> > (we *must* do so today, or risk significant [weeks] more delay).  Of
> > course, we found another small glitch!  I will propose a resolution, but
> > also I think that "majority of implementations" should rule.
> >
> > Problem:
> >
> > ** In Chapter 2/figure 2, and in Chapter 3/3.3 (dtd), it is 'layerdesc'.
> >
> > ** In 2.3.4 and 3.2.2.5, it is 'layerdescription'.
> >
> > There is little to recommend one over the other, except that layerdesc
> > would be the only case amongst the 8 attributes where the name is
> > abbreviated (a weak rationale, I'd say).
> >
> > The one implementation I know of is MetaCheck 5.18, whose webCGM profile
> > checking looks for 'layerdesc'.  It also seems to me, as we went through
> > the "case" issue on the ApsAttr types, that most people took their
> > definitive lists from section 3.3, the DTD.
> >
> > Therefore I recommend the resolution:  'layerdesc'
> >
> > Please tell me (and Dave) by the end of the day, what does your
> > implementation do?  (If anything -- I suspect that layer
> > functionality is
> > not widely implemented yet).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lofton.
> >
> >
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