Re: [ebxml-cppa] CPP and CPA element documentation changes

[Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

Now that Chris mentioned it, I agree that the original ebXML team did
discuss using the CPP and CPA version attributes to indicate the version of
the schema that applies to the instance document.  However, that never got
into ver. 1.0.  Ver. 1.0 talks about using the version attribute to version
the instance document.

I suggest that we redefine the version attribute to identify the version of
the schema (which is presumably the same as the version of the
specification) and handle versioning of the instance documents through a
guid.

I assume that the schema document identifies its own version.

Regards,
Marty

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                      Dale Moberg                                                                                             
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Attached are some options for changes to
CPP and CPA reflecting recent discussions.

Marty Sachs and others have proposed dropping
the version element.

Chris Ferris reminded us of a use of version as
indicating the version of the CPPA specification
that the documents were governed by (this version
is distinct from any versioning of a schema, as
is done with XSLT.)

Here is how to assemble the variants.

The "CPP CPA element core language.doc" is the baseline,
with the version attributes omitted.

To get the full Ferris option, add in the text from
"CPA version of specification.doc" and "CPP version of
specification.doc" to the core.

To get a variant in which a version attribute is retained
for CPA, and that has a role in Negotiation, add in
"CPA version for negotiation.doc" to the core.

I did not supply a variant for versioning the CPP because
I have not been able to think of a simple way to explain how
CPP versioning would work. Unlike the CPA, where apparently
users might wish to maintain their cpaid in a new agreement,
CPP versioning does not have a use case currently.

Please comment on these on the list,
indicating rankings for the variants, or new ones
if you want to add your own language.
We will seek to obtain a consensus on this
Monday.

Thanks, Dale Moberg






#### CPP CPA element core language.doc has been removed from this note on
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March 24 2002 by Martin W Sachs
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March 24 2002 by Martin W Sachs