Tin Man Design Question 4 - to vote Jan. 9th?

[David_Marston@lotus.com]

Here is one of the issues identified in my message titled
"Test Case Markup & Cataloging, Tin Man edition" that I sent
to this list on 12/1/2000:
4. What limits to impose on "Purpose" to make it a one-liner

DISCUSSION:
The Tin Man proposal says
<!ELEMENT Purpose ( #PCDATA ) >
  <!-- Max 72 characters, no new-lines -->
<!ELEMENT Elaboration ( #PCDATA ) >
though I feel more strongly about the "no new-lines" part than
the length limit. Elaboration deliberately has no limit. Those
who saw NIST's display of the test catalog in HTML will know
why we would want a terse Purpose statement. Carmelo showed us
a table of case names, other data, and the one-liners.

After discussion, this can be voted as several separate items,
like rules vs. guidelines, new-line rule/guideline, length
rule/guideline.
.................David Marston