[xtm-wg] New language.xtm and country.xtm proposals

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

I have now put together new proposals for the language.xtm and
country.xtm PSI sets, and intend to submit these to TopicMaps.Org for
consideration in Montréal.

Feedback on these proposed new versions is very much wanted. My hope
is that we can discuss these now, so that we have progressed the
discussion and consensus as far as it can go before the Montréal
meeting. With luck the PSI sets may be adopted officially there.

The PSI sets are temporarily available from:
  <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/tmp/country.xtm >
  <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/tmp/language.xtm >

language.xtm differs from the previous proposal in the following ways:

 - a number of missing two-letter codes have been added, updating the
   PSI set with all changes made to ISO 639 up to May 2000

 - all languages that had only three-letter codes and no two-letter
   codes have been added. These now have PSIs of the form
     http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#xxx

   This is sub-optimal, in that to create the correct PSIs from ISO
   639 codes, implementors must now know whether a two-letter code
   exists or not. This can be solved by using the additional PSIs now
   defined (see below).

 - all topics now have explicit subject indicators, so that importing
   the topic map from local file systems give the correct subject
   indicators 

 - the topic for language-code has been replaced by a topic for
   language, so that there now exists a well-defined PSI for language

 - French names for all topics have been added (with some minor
   exceptions; contributions gratefully accepted)

 - additional PSIs and base names have been added for all the
   three-letter language codes (bibliographic and terminology)

 - the confusing xml:base attribute has been removed

 - the topics used for typing and scoping are no longer instances of
   the PSI "class"

 - the reference to the XTM DTD is now an absolute URI

 - the following codes have been changed
     - Indonesian: "in" to "id"
     - Hebrew: "iw" to "he"
     - Yiddish: "ji" to "yi"
   to reflect code changes made by ISO in 1989

 - the code for Serbo-croatian ("sh") has been removed, to reflect the
   fact that it was deprecated by ISO in February 2000 (one would
   assume the reason to be the existence of separate codes for Serbian
   and Croatian)


country.xtm differs from the previous proposal in the following ways:

 - all topics now have explicit subject indicators, so that importing
   the topic map from local file systems give the correct subject
   indicators 

 - the topic for country-code has been replaced by a topic for
   country, so that there now exists a well-defined PSI for country

 - additional PSIs and base names have been added for all the
   three-letter country codes, as well as the numerical codes

 - the confusing xml:base attribute has been removed

 - the topics used for typing and scoping are no longer instances of
   the PSI "class"

 - the reference to the XTM DTD is now an absolute URI

No country PSIs have been added or removed.

--Lars M.


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