Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Rule: 5

["Lisa-Aeon" <lseaburg@aeon-llc.com>]

We now have 2 possible ways to word this rule:

(Order does not imply anything)

1.
[R 5]  XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z) optionally
followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to z, and A to Z).
They may not  include periods, spaces, or other separators. As a regular
expression this is represented as:  [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*


2.
[R 5]  XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z) optionally
followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to z, and A to Z).
Other characters not described here, such as punctuations, periods,
spaces, or other separators MUST NOT appear in XML names.
As a regular expression this is represented as:  [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*

Can we have a straw poll on this, please send me an email saying Rule #1 or
#2.  I will post results.  Thanks.

Lisa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chin Chee-Kai" <cheekai@softml.net>
To: "UBL-NDR" <ubl-ndrsc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Rule: 5


> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Dan Vint wrote:
>
> >>How about combining the two so a business person can understand as well
as
> >>the programmer types? So something like this:
> >>
> >>>[R 5]  XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z) optionally
> >>>followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to z, and A to
Z).
> >>>They may not  include periods, spaces, or other separators. As a
regular
> >>>expression this is represented as:  [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
>
> That's a good idea, Dan.
>
> Agree with suggested wording, except 2nd sentence which somewhat
> weakens it again.  May I tap on your wordings to suggest:
>
> [R 5]  XML names must start with a letter (a to z or A to Z) optionally
> followed by any number of letters or digits (0 to 9, a to z, and A to Z).
> Other characters not described here, such as punctuations, periods,
> spaces, or other separators MUST NOT appear in XML names.
> As a regular expression this is represented as:  [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Chin Chee-Kai
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>
> >>At 10:11 AM 7/17/2003 -0500, Lisa-Aeon wrote:
> >>>Rules for Voting:  Each email will have only one rule in it, I will try
to
> >>>mark the rules that group with it, or rules that might duplicate it.
The
> >>>membership has 5 working days to bring forth objection or discussion,
after
> >>>the 5 working days, if there are no objections, the rule will be
assumed to
> >>>be "ACCEPTED" and be given to the LCSC for their implementation.
> >>>
> >>>Voting period on this rule ends:  July 24, 2003
> >>>
> >>>*******************************
> >>>
> >>>We discussed the actually wording on this rule, but had not finalized
> >>>whether or not it is accepted.  Please read through, I put together a
> >>>changed rule that I think is what the group had wanted.  Discuss and
vote.
> >>>
> >>>Old Wording:
> >>>
> >>>[R 5]  XML names constructed from dictionary entry names must not
include
> >>>periods, spaces, or other separators.
> >>>
> >>>Change to:
> >>>
> >>>[R 5]  The XML names in UBL should be drawn from the regular expression
set
> >>>[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9]*.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Comments:
> >>>
> >>>This is another rule LCSC has been asking for, should we clarify?
> >>>
> >>>The regular expression is not quite right, but we agree.  We want
> >>>clarification, we don't want difficulty in translation or programming
within
> >>>other environments.
> >>>
> >>>CK: Underscores (_) used as first character to denote "internal usage
of
> >>>some sort" need not be considered separators, but should presumably
fall
> >>>under this guidance of usage avoidance. So suggest that "separators" be
> >>>replaced by  "any other character than the 52 upper and lower case
alphabets
> >>>and the 10 digit characters.  In other words, the XML names in UBL
should be
> >>>drawn from the regular expression set [a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9]*" Note: this
> >>>would also help mapping to the namespaces of other  languages such as
> >>>Java.Correction from
> >>>
> >>>Dan Vint: Change regular expression to: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
> >>>
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