Re: [codelist] Default letter ballot regarding the Schematron-based validation methodology

["Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)" <abcoates@mileywatts.com>]

PS  Is there any intention that any part of this document would be  
normative?  That wasn't obvious.  Thanks,

Cheers, Tony.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:06:31 +0100, Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)  
<abcoates@mileywatts.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:43:41 +0100, G. Ken Holman  
> <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:
>
>>     That the Code List Representation Technical Committee take
>>     onto its programme of work the code-list-validation-related
>>     work item begun in the Universal Business Language Technical
>>     Committee, and to bring the renamed and revised specification
>>     through the OASIS process as the CLRTC committee decides.
>
> I'm basically in agreement with the CLRTC taking on responsbility for  
> this, subject to the resriction that for this to be a CLRTC document, it  
> needs to focus on code lists *exclusively*, and on genericode  
> exclusively as the code list format.  It should not discuss validation  
> of constraints that are not related to code lists or not related to  
> genericode.  This will narrow the focus of the document compared to the  
> UBL version.
>
> There are many references to UBL and trading partners that are not  
> appropriate for a CLRTC document, and these should be removed or  
> replaced, but I am assuming the document will be rewritten for CLRTC.   
> In particular, much of the text could be expressed more simply and  
> concisely, and we should try and to this.
>
> Cheers, Tony.

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