Comments on [wsn] Groups - WS-Topics draft 1.3c

["Wilson, Kirk D" <Kirk.Wilson@ca.com>]

(Initial) comments on wstop:

1.  Section 2: third bullet under the definition of Topic (as well as
line 719) refers to "Situation".  Situation (the capitalized, technical
term) is now defined only in wsnt.  There should be some acknowledgement
that this is a special-use term is defined in another spec (otherwise,
why is it capitalized?) or else the definition should be substituted in
this text.

2.  Line 231: TopicExpression dialects are now defined in section 8 in
this version.

3.  The wstop:TopicNamespace/@location attribute is not documented in
the text (see p. 12).  (Is @location intended to be an example of
anyAttribute?  If so, should that be clearer in the text?)

4.  Line 353 shows the value of the MessagePattern element as
wsrp:QueryExpression.  Was that intended to be wsnt:QueryExpression?

5.  I'm unclear about what @namespace attribute is being referred in
line 368.  There is no @namespace defined for either TopicNamespace or
Topic.  Was targetNamespace intended?

6.  I would recommend changing the title of section 8 to TopicExpression
Dialects.  Dialects are being defined in this section not the
(wsnt:)TopicExpression element.  Also, is a rationalization offered any
where for why there is both a Topic Set document as well as the
wsnt:TopicExpression element?  IMHO, they seem to be providing
essentially the same information (in different ways), but perhaps I've
missed something.

Kirk Wilson
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