Re: [xtm-wg] XTM Processing Model - proposal for requirements

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

I think we're in synch on this.

My wording for your #1 was:

"interoperability is of paramount concern"

Given consensus on that, we can presumably keep the fighting on the
rest of it to a normal level ;-) This will also prevent us from making
the same mistakes that happened in the SGML world, where the expensive
consultants like me were flown places to tell people to remove the
DOCTYPE line to get this or that editor to work... 

Thanks Lars.

S.

--- Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no> wrote:
> 
> Here are my proposed requirements. Please note that this list will
> only have any value if
> 
>   a) people read it closely and fight the bits they don't like, 
> 
>   b) the actual model document follows it, and
> 
>   c) the requirements serve as the basis for arguments about what the
>      model should look like.
> 
> 
> 
> XTM Processing Model - requirements proposal
> 
> The XTM processing model shall:
> 
>  1. Provide implementors of XTM software with all the information
> they
>     need to ensure that their implementations are fully interoperable
>     with other implementations.
> 
>  2. Describe the data model, or abstract structure, of topic maps.
>  
>  3. Describe how to build instances of the model from XTM 1.0
>     documents.
>  
>  4. Describe how to build instances of the model from ISO 13250
>     documents.
>  
>  5. Be specified in exhaustive detail, covering every aspect of topic
>     maps that has model, or logical, significance.
> 
>  6. Be written to be easily and fully comprehensible to implementors
>     with as scope for interpretation as possible.
> 
>  7. Not constrain implementations beyond what is necessary to ensure
>     that they do follow the XTM standard.
> 
>  8. Describe error situations and how to handle them.
> 
>  9. Include no optional parts in the model.
> 
>  10. Include as few optional processing steps as possible.
> 
> 
> --Lars M.
> 
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