Re: [ubl-ndrsc] AppInfo

[Eduardo Gutentag <Eduardo.Gutentag@Sun.COM>]

As far as I remember, the issue with AppInfo was consistency and
interoperability of implementations.

AFAIK nothing has changed in this front.

However, if it is to be used for conveying non-normative
information only, then I'm ok with its use. Otherwise not.


Eve L. Maler wrote:
> I don't know that it's a good idea to use AppInfo for important code 
> list semantics/equivalents information, but I no longer see AppInfo as a 
> particular threat in and of itself.  Either its contents are supported 
> by an application-specific level of processing or they're not; it won't 
> impact the normative schema model.  It could certainly be useful, for 
> example, for some people to put Schematron renditions of checkable 
> business rules in there.
> 
>     Eve
> 
> CRAWFORD, Mark wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>>  
>> Our current NDR language has xsd:AppInfo as not allowed. This came 
>> from our initial risk assessment in which we declared XSD:AppInfo as 
>> having an unacceptable risk factor.  Last week in Montreal Ken Holman 
>> seconded a proposal from the UK that we modify our position and allow 
>> for the use of xsd:AppInfo for conveying 1) code list value names and 
>> 2) formatting instructions.  Jon is also in favor of using xsd:AppInfo 
>> as he sees this as the logical place for the information - including 
>> the code list value names we currently specify to be carried in 
>> xsd:Documentation. We also have one of our earlier decisions that said 
>> that formatting was not something we saw as normative UBL.   
>> The pros and cons of handling the formatting issue will be discussed 
>> on the LCSC listserve - and frankly as long as they are talking about 
>> a non-normative associated schema I don't really care how they handle 
>> it.  However I am still very much against the use of XSD:AppInfo.  So 
>> that we may provide guidance to the ad-hoc code list group in LC, I 
>> would like to get a sense of others - especially Eve, Eduardo, Matt, 
>> Arofan, and Bill regarding what if anything NDR should do regarding 
>> our current restriction on the use of XSD:AppInfo.
>>  
>>
>> */Mark/*//
>>
> 

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