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Subject: (ANN) Election Markup Language Version 7.0 approved and published as a Committee Specification
OASIS Members, We are pleased to announce the approval and publication of an OASIS Committee Specification by the members of the OASIS Election and Voter Services TC: Election Markup Language (EML) Specification Version 7.0 Committee Specification 01 27 October 2011 Overview: This document describes the background and purpose of the Election Markup Language, the electoral processes from which it derives its structure and the security and audit mechanisms it is designed to support. It also provides an explanation of the core schemas used throughout, definitions of the simple and complex datatypes, plus the EML schemas themselves. It also covers the conventions used in the specification and the use of namespaces, as well as guidance on the constraints, extensibility, and splitting of messages. URIs: The prose specification document and related files are available here: PDF (Authoritative): http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/eml-v7.0-cs01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/eml-v7.0-cs01.html Editable source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/eml-v7.0-cs01.doc XML schemas: http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/Schemas/ http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/external/ XML Dictionary and spreadsheet artifacts: http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/dictionary/ Distribution ZIP files For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here: http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/cs01/eml-v7.0-cs01.zip Members of the OASIS Election and Voter Services TC [1] requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a Committee Specification. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve at Committee Specification (CS) level passed [3], and the approved CS01 is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above. Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone. ========== Additional references: [1] OASIS Election and Voter Services TC http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/ [2] Public reviews: 30-day public review, 18 August 2011: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00008.html [3] CS ballot http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/election/ballot.php?id=2130 /chet ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-378-3472 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393 Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter: http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook: http://facebook.com/oasis.open
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