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Subject: Proposal to Add Rules to Section 7
OASIS RegRep group, There is a Proposal to change the Oasis RegRep base document near the end, after the Discussion! DISCUSSION Section 7 of the OASIS Registry/Repository specification is titled "XML Definitions and Protocols". It defines XML Entities, Elements, and DTD's to represent all of the relevant entities, attributes, and relationships defined by the OASIS Information Model defined in Section 6, as well as XML syntax for representing Registry Services requests. Section 7 is an HTML document that was dervied from a June 8, 2000 proposal titled "Candidate Oasis Registry/Repository XML Definitions", currently available at URL ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisXML.pdf Section 6 is an HTML document that was derived from a June 8, 2000 proposal titled "Candidate Oasis Information Model", a revised version of which is currently available at URL ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisModel.pdf The revision simply adds a few examples and fixes one or two typos - no substantive changes. Also in that same FTP directory is the XML Submission DTD extracted from Section 7 and two XML documents that validate to that Submission DTD. Those documents are all available as follows - note that the "txt" versions are identical to the corresponding "dtd" or "xml" versions just for the convenience of anyone whose browser is not set up to handle "dtd" and "xml" documents in a special way. ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/Submission.dtd ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/Submission.txt ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisEntityPkg.xml ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisEntityPkg.txt ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisElementPkg.xml ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisElementPkg.txt However, even though the title of Section 7 of the OASIS base document says that it does "protocols", the fact is that all of the semantic rules in that Section for handling XML Requests to the Registry are left blank. This is a proposal to fill in some of those missing rules so that a Registry receiving a Submission DTD will be able to process the enclosed requests as intended. Begin OASIS RegRep PROPOSAL In the following document, take all of the Semantic Rules in Section "Y.3.1 Submission DTD", Section "Y.3.3 Classification Scheme DTD", and Section "Y.4 Request Elements", and use them to replace the missing Sematic Rules in corresponding DTD and Request elements in Section 7 of the existing OASIS RegRep base document. ftp://xsun.sdct.itl.nist.gov/regrep/OasisNewXML.pdf End OASIS RegRep PROPOSAL These rules should be a good starting point for defining the protocols of how a Request impacts the contents of the Registry/Repository. If you don't have a tool to read DTD's you might find it helpful to use the Index of this document to trace down the nested element and entity definitions. I don't know when the next scheduled Oasis RegRep meeting or teleconference is, but it's my hope that this proposal could be acted upon at the earliest opportunity. The proposed rules are not cast in concrete, but they should give a feeling for what level of specification is necessary (and sufficient I believe) for defining Registry Services and their effect on the underlying Registry/Repository. The semantic rules for the Query DTD continue to be left blank! They should only be a little bit more difficult to fill in. -- Len ************************************************************** Len Gallagher LGallagher@nist.gov NIST Work: 301-975-3251 Bldg 820 Room 562 Home: 301-424-1928 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 USA Fax: 301-948-6213 **************************************************************
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