Re: [ubl-lcsc] UBL Schema 1.0 alpha draft-7

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2003-09-30 09:39 +0800, Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, G. Ken Holman wrote:
>
> >>At 2003-09-30 01:14 +0800, Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> >>>- No excessive (> 255 character) definition text observed
> >>
> >>I believe we should limit characters to <128 and not 255 because many
> >>characters over 128 require UTF-8 encoding.
>
>I think I described it with too few words, sorry.
>I meant text of lengths larger than 255 characters,
>not the encoding values.

I'm sorry I misunderstood ... thanks for clarifying your comment for me.

> >>Line 4632 of UBL-Reusable-1.0-alpha-draft-7.xsd is not well-formed due to a
> >>high-bit character (probably an ndash or mdash again) in the Definition
> >>#PCDATA.
>
>Yesp, thanks!  Likely a fix at spreadsheet level should do it.

Yes, I agree ... not sure if there are any stylesheet options to restrict 
characters to ISO-646/ASCII.

>This is helpful.  Any others?

Not well-formedness errors ... I just run each fragment through Jing and 
through Xerces C++ to check for well-formedness with two different XML 
processors.

> >>Should I go ahead and make the XPath files for Draft 7 or should we rely on
> >>Draft 6 for the structural issues until a Draft 8 is available?
>
>There probably should be another 1 or 2 more drafts,
>but if the XPath process could uncover more problems,
>inconsistencies etc, that'd be helpful.

I'm at a dialup location tonight ... my hotel tomorrow afternoon should 
have high speed.  I'll look for any revisions and, if not, I'll just kill 
the bad character in Draft7 and make a new set of files.

Thanks, Chee-Kai, for all your work with these files!

...................... Ken

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