[emergency-msg] RE: Getiing Ready!

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: [emergency-msg] RE: Getiing Ready!

Thanks Gary,

This makes sense to me, so I will incorporate it into the Rev. 007 that I will upload Monday. It can, of course, always be changed, but since I think this is what we will agree to, having it in the most current revision for the face-to-face will save us(me) some work on site.

Cheers,

Rex

P.S. Sorry for the duplication to you, Gary. I neglected to do a "reply-to-all."

At 9:45 AM -0500 12/29/07, Gary Ham wrote:

> Folks,
>  
> I made changes to a copy of the schemas and examples
> to reduce the number of name spaces from 20 to 2.  Basically,
> there is a namespace for the Common types schema and a namespace for
> the message reference schema.  The message reference schema
> namespace is reused for all of the separate message types.  It
> works successfully.  To put this change in the document requires
> a 2 line change to each and every schema and example XML file in the
> document (or you can cut and paste my files into the document in their
> entirety).
>  
> The question is, does this change make sense?
>  The original consensus of the group was that a separate name
> space made sense for each message.  On the other hand, all of the
> messages use terminology for their tags that is derived from THE SAME
> REFERENCE SCHEMA. Why should that schema not set the name space for
> all of its derived messages?  So, my suggestion is to make the
> two line changes. In my mind, it reduces complexity and has a logical
> basis as well.
>  
> I did not try to go to a single namespace for the
> messages and common types because the types are imported, as opposed
> to being actually form the same reference source in a restriction
> sense.  It alos keeps them encapsulated, so they could be reused
> in the future.
>  
> Example of the required change is as
> follows:
>  
> In the Commit Resource Message
> schema:
>  
> From:
>     targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:CommitResource"
> To:
>     xmlns:rmsg="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:msg"
>     targetNamespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:msg"
>  
> In the
> examples:
>  
> From:
>     xsi:schemaLocation="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:CommitResource
> EDXL-RMCommitResource.xsd"
>     xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:CommitResource"
> To:
>     xsi:schemaLocation="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:msg
> EDXL-RMCommitResource.xsd"
>     xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:EDXL:RM:1.0:msg"
>  
> Respectfully,
>  
>  
>  
> Gary A. Ham
> http://grandpaham.com
> 703-899-6241
> Grandpa can do IT!
>

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