ebBP 10/3/2005: Public Comment re: name, nameID and urn

[Monica J Martin <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Sent today 3 October 2005, this is a followup from Stephen Green re: the 
use of URN. We'll discuss in tomorrow's call. Thank you.

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>Comment from: stephen_green@bristol-city.gov.uk
>
>Name: Stephen Green
>Title:
>Organization: UBL Small Business Subcommittee
>Regarding Specification: 2.0.1
>
>the wording (3.8.1) "The Name attribute SHOULD
>NOT be used, nor is it intended, for referencing, 
>although it may be important to the business
>analyst." prevents the use of the Name attribute 
>in the way I had hoped  - as an alternative to 
>targetNamespace which is too limiting/specific
>for, say, designation of a subset of a schema as
>defined either in a Schematron document or as
>defined for the UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset.
>(This is with note to the ebBP provision in the
>Specification element for documents other than
>W3C XSD schemas, for example, other ISO DSDL
>scema types or other definitions such as with CAM.)
>
>Two solutions might be
>1. to reword the rule to say something like
>"The Name 
>attribute SHOULD
>NOT be used, nor is it intended, for document-scoped referencing, although it may be 
>important to the business
>analyst and could be used to provide a reference to an external document specification where
>targetNamespace, say, might not be appropriate (such as for a subset or a Schematron schema)."
>
>or
>2. to either, 2.a., change the targetNamespace attribute to ID, say (since not
>all document specification types use a targetNamespace as the means to identify themselves)
>or, 2.b., to add ID as an attribute along with targetNamespace
>
>
>I also question the role of Specification/Name and Specification/NameID. Is the
>latter used to reference this element internally elsewhere in the BPSS definition instance?
>
>
>
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