Re: [egov] Registry Pilot Proposal

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Comments inline:

>· it must be possible to create schema documents from components held in
>the repository;
>
Yes - this is a bit hard to do today.  This is what CAM should do.  The 
binding template allows you to declare "Use this data element within 
this schema with XXX constraints".  

>· it must be possible to hold multiple versions of schema components and
>complete schema documents;
>
This is not problem actually for an ebXML registry.  In fact, it handles 
this with ease and can be demonstrated quite easily.

Duane

>
>The reason I say this is that (as you know) the ebXML Registry
>specification does not yet have *native* (plug-and-play) support for
>fine-grained components such as elements, attributes, datatypes, and
>namespace identifiers (again, I mean that these are not explicitly
>called out in the spec, but an implementer can certainly accomodate them
>given the abstract nature of the ebXML Registry information model). The
>Core Components work will get us closer to this, but it is a methodology
>that not all will want/need to adopt. So we still need to have native
>support for these fine-grained XML components. My hope is that the new
>Semantic Content Management initiative in the ebXML Registry TC will
>address this.
>
>David Webber will most likely follow with a comment on how CAM fits with
>all of this. :)
>
>Kind Regards,
>Joe
>
>Paul Spencer wrote:
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>
>>So far, my draft of this proposal has had a restricted audience (those who
>>expressed an interest) while I was waiting for the MOD to confirm its
>>intended involvement. I am pleased to say that this has now happened, and I
>>would like everyone to have a chance to comment.
>>
>>It is vital that we get this right at this stage as we need to agree a
>>project scope and timescale and commit the resources required. I suggest
>>that we freeze the proposal on Feb 24 to allow a couple of days before the
>>next telecon, when I hope we can approve it.
>>
>>So the more comments the better. Especially those that propose changed
>>wording rather than leaving that to me :-)
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Paul Spencer
>>Director
>>Boynings Consulting Ltd
>>http://www.boynings.co.uk
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