Re: [codelist] Revision to the CVA specification

["Anthony B. Coates (DES)"<anthony.coates@documentengineeringservices.com>]

Great news.  Is there a link to them anywhere?  Cheers, Tony.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:48:19 -0000, Harris, Jim <jharris@ncsc.org> wrote:

> Just an FYI . . .  The Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee
> recently approved as a committee draft version 4.0 of the ECF
> specification.  This version utilizes genricode for code lists defined
> on the court policy component of the specification.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:44 AM
> To: Code List Representation TC
> Subject: [codelist] Revision to the CVA specification
>
> Fellow CLRTC members,
>
> While the Code List Representation Technical Committee list has been
> quiet, there have been a growing number of users of OASIS genericode
> and the proposed Context/Value Association document model.  I've been
> working with people in New Zealand, England and Belgium on new
> implementations, as well as assisting the UBL committee with their
> 2.0 update release with updated files.  I also had the opportunity to
> teach a full day on genericode and CVA in Rome in April.
>
> Further to Maarten's formal request:
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist-comment/200811/msg00000.ht
> ml
>
> ... I have addressed a couple of small issues that have been piling up:
>
>   - augmented the Identification section to be more in line with
> genericode
>   - rearranged and augmented the Annotation section to be more in line
> with
>     genericode
>   - added the mark="" attribute to characterize a context with a name
> token
>
> Maarten's request was framed using Schematron, yet CVA is specified
> to be implementation independent.  The new CVA mark="" attribute can
> be implemented with flag="" when using Schematron as the
> implementation.  Using "mark" reflects that the user is marking the
> particular context with some abstract characteristic that may be
> useful in downstream distinctions of the constraint violations.
>
> Still not addressed are valuable comments from Tony regarding the
> prose used in the draft specification.  I'm waiting until we stop
> getting technical comments before reworking the prose.
>
>   The specification of CVA:
>
>    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=29990
>
>   An example Schematron implementation of CVA for validation:
>
>    http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#cva2sch
>
>   XSLT 1.0 stylesheets for rendering CVA and genericode files in HTML:
>
>    http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#codess
>
> As always, any feedback is very much appreciated.
>
> I'm thinking in the new year we should restart some CLRTC meetings
> and if we don't get any more requests for technical changes we start
> the OASIS standardization process for the CVA specification.
>
> Does anyone feel differently at this point?
>
> Thanks for your continued support of the committee work!
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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