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It's
only a naming convention, so I think consistency is the most important thing.
Otherwise it leads to errors. We should use one convention throughout, and I
think that should be the current one.
Regards
Paul
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 [mailto:paul.spencer@boynings.co.uk]
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
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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.
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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.
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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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