Re: [emergency] Issue #29: Updated Suggested Language

[Art Botterell <acb@incident.com>]

I'm not sure this example fully reflects the intent of 
<resourceDesc>.  As we've discussed earlier, <resourceDesc> was 
intended to be roughly equivalent to an"alt=" attribute in an HTML 
<img> tag... in that it would be a useful description for the benefit 
of folks who can't see an image for personal or technological 
reasons.  Just restating the MIME type doesn't really achieve that, 
does it?

- Art


>This is an amended proposal from the earlier one
>(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200312/msg00002.html).
>As I mentioned in the 12/9 call
>(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200312/msg00026.html),
>Eliot and I had some offline discussions to clarify. In short, we both
>agreed the Data Dictionary could benefit from some simply
>element-specific examples. So, you could just take the example part of
>my first proposal and say:
>
><resource>
>   <resourceDesc>Image file (GIF)</resourceDesc>   
>   <mimeType>image/gif</mimeType>
>   <size>23456</size>
>   <uri>http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/getAdvisoryImage</uri>
></resource>
>
>That being said, we *could* just add these for <alert>, <info>,
><resource>, and <area> - the "parent" elements. If we do, then we should
>do a comprehensive (include all children) example for each of these.
>
>Allen
>
>--
>R. Allen Wyke
>Chair, OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
>
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