RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd

["Zelechoski, Peter" <pzelechoski@essvote.com>]

Title: Message

Gents -

 

I was out of pocket last week and will be this week also.

 

When I get back I'll review and respond.

 

- Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:23 AM
To: Paul Spencer
Cc: eml
Subject: RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd

Paul,

 

Understood.  

 

I was kinda prodding you a little bit to try and see them in a more generic vein - and how they might be used for other elections - where digital registration systems are in use...?  ; -)

 

Obviously we'll need to make sure the P1612 folks are happy with their specific needs being addressed - and I did use their specific element requests fromt heir XML examples.  Seeing I'm also working on a live US implementation myself - I'm kinda first hand getting feedback from our development team right now - so they are keeping me honest there!

 

Thanks,

 

DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
From: "Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
Date: Mon, November 13, 2006 11:14 am
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
Cc: "eml" <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>

David,

 

I didn't mean "US-centric" as a criticism. It is just that the US is the driver for these changes, so it is hard for me to say whether they meet the requirements.

 

Regards

 

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 13 November 2006 16:01
To: Paul Spencer
Cc: eml
Subject: RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd

Paul,

 

I have endeavoured to make them less US-centric by revising the element names, and making the mechanisms able to accept more use cases than just the specific US ones.

 

Now I have the NDR link - I'll adjust accordingly to make them consistent.

 

All these details, finetuning and feedback is exactly what I was looking for - before continuing on with the next schema(s).

 

I'm hoping to avoid making too many changes to core - but obviously I'm anticipating we'll have some.

 

Many thanks, DW

 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
From: "Paul Spencer" <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
Date: Mon, November 13, 2006 10:45 am
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>, "eml"
<election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>

David,

 

I really need to see the changes you make to the core to see the final results. I can't really comment directly on these US-centric changes at the moment as they are outside my experience.

 

In terms of the naming conventions, we have been using the UK Government NDR at http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/schema-guidelines-3_1(1).pdf. This affects various of the names you have used. We might as well be consistent.

 

Regards

 

Paul

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 11 November 2006 00:06
To: eml
Subject: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd

Team,

 

I've just spent some hours getting the EML 330 updated for V5.0 - based on the requested changes from IEEE P1612 to support pollbook handling.

 

I've uploaded this to the TC documents section here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/election/download.php/21108/330-electionlist-v5-0.xsd

 

What takes the time is just finding existing type declarations and then hooking those into the new element, and extending it with additional attributes as needed - and getting the schema editor to check it is OK.

 

Anyway - please take a look.  You will find the top of the schema now has a comments section that calls out the changes added - elements and attributes.  Everything else is from v4.0 - I've not had to change those base schema includes to do this - aim is to re-use v4.0 as much as possible here.

 

Hopefully everyone concurs on the approach - I don't want to do the remaining changes before I've made sure I'm headed in the right direction first!

 

If everyone is happy with this - then I'll work on the other ones - hopefully this will move a bit faster now I've got one done!   I'm estimating I have another 5 or 6 to do to catch all the changes that have been asked for.

 

Thanks, DW