All,
I think it make sense to not change what we
done already (there are quite a few implementations out there using EML).
It’s not a critical interoperability
issue to leave them unchanged at the moment, but changing what we have already done
at this point in time will be an interoperability issue now and in the future.
We can use the convention for new attributes and just
add a note to explain we have adopted that convention for new attributes
definitions after EML version 4.
JR
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From: Paul Spencer
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Sent: 15 November 2006 09:18
To: John Borras; David RR Webber
(XML)
Cc: eml
Subject: RE: [election-services]
Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
-----Original Message-----
From: John Borras
[mailto:johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 15 November 2006 09:13
To: Paul Spencer; David RR Webber
(XML)
Cc: eml
Subject: Re: [election-services]
Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
As far as I am aware we
have received no complaints about our current approach so why change just
for the sake of it. Let's keep to our current approach and only change in
the future if we are pressurised to do so, and then we can make it plain
why we are changing and what the consequences are.
Regards
John
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From: Paul Spencer <paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk>
To: David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info>
Cc: eml <election-services@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, 13 November, 2006 9:41:04 PM
Subject: RE: [election-services] Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
You are
right - many people use lower camel case for attributes, but the UK NDR was
written before that became a convention (largely through the ebXML
work). We discussed changing some time back and decided against it. We
should keep to a single convention for EML. That means either changing all the
existing attributes (and putting up with the flak from those who have already
implemented systems) or sticking to the convention for new ones.
-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber (XML)
[mailto:david@drrw.info]
Sent: 13 November 2006 20:02
To: Paul Spencer
Cc: John Borras
Subject: RE: [election-services]
Revised EML 330 - Election List xsd
Just had a quick whip
thru this - NDR stuff.
I'd used lowercase
camel for attributes - since that's a convention lot of people follow.
I'll have to look at the
other names - I thought I had the upper camel there - unless there's a suffix
type missing?
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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>
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.
-----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
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:
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.
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