Defects in Authoritative Version of UOML-1-v1.0

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

I am sad to report that the Editable Source (Authoritative) version of the Committee Specification is in a format that is identified as ODF 1.2, a specification that has not even reached committee draft at this point.  The file has been created by a specific product (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta) that is in beta test.  

The current supported version of OpenOffice.org is 2.4.1, and this version is reported as up-to-date.  The OpenOffice.org site page for 3.0 beta (http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/) has this message:

      "The software is not recommended for production use at this stage. 
       There are no guarantees. For production, use our most recent stable
       version."

I believe that this is inappropriate as a published, authoritative edition.  It would be preferable to use the lowest-numbered version of a format conforming to an OASIS Standard for OpenDocument (either v1.0 or v1.1), since these are upward compatible and will likely be upward compatible with future versions of the ODF specification.  There should not be anything in the document that can't be expressed in one of those currently-standard formats.

 - Dennis

PS: It is possible to open the document in an ODF 1.1-compatible program such as OpenOffice.org 2.4. I am not in a position to determine whether that results in alteration of any authoritative aspect of the document.  I suspect the document might also open correctly in RedOffice 4.0, an ODF 1.0-compliant product used on the UOML-X committee. 

Dennis E. Hamilton
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------------------- Original Message
From: "Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org> 
To: <tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org> 
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:54:29 -0400 
Subject: Spec UOML Part 1 v1.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard

[ ... ]

(a) Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document
repository, and any appropriate supplemental documentation for the
specification, both of which must be written using the OASIS templates. The
specification may not have been changed between its approval as a Committee
Specification and its submission to OASIS for consideration as an OASIS
Standard, except for the changes on the title page and running footer noting
the approval status and date.
 
 Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uoml-x/v1.0/cs01/uoml-part1-v1.0-cs01.odt
 PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uoml-x/v1.0/cs01/uoml-part1-v1.0-cs01.pdf
 HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uoml-x/v1.0/cs01/uoml-part1-v1.0-cs01.html
 Schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/uoml-x/v1.0/cs01/uoml-schema-cs01.xsd 

 

 - Dennis

Dennis E. Hamilton
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