RE: Tracking Mechanism

[Ben Robb <b.robb@cscape.com>]

A few things:

1. Should the dates not be in YYYY-MM-DD format for ease of sorting/
searching?

2. <test-reviewer> in the case of an "accepted" status test - should we
have *both* reviewers names here (for audit trails etc)? Similarly for
<review-date>. Perhaps a structure like:

	<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-01">Carmelo
Montanez</test-reviewer>
	<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-07">Ben Robb</test-reviewer>

3. Should the status attribute be a lookup? Something like:

<revisions>
	<statusflags>
		<statusflag id="s1" displayname="accepted" />
		<statusflag id="s2" displayname="rejected" />
		...
	</statusflags>	

	<test status="s1" id="Numb001">
		<explanation>Missing "name" attribute</explanation>
		<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-01">Carmelo
Montanez</test-reviewer>
		<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-07">Ben
Robb</test-reviewer>
		<test-date>June 1, 2001</test-date>
		<test-submitter>David Martson</test-submitter>
		<comments>Problem was reported back to
organization</comments>
	</test>
	...
</revisions>

The advantage of this is that in any admin tools you are able to present
the user with dropdown lists very easily, and misspelling/ case issues
are reduced. It also means we have a central repository of Status flags,
which makes the process of updates to the words easier. I suppose it
comes down to design style whether you want this level of control.

Of course, this then leaves us with a problem if one reviewer accepts
the test, and another rejects it.

Perhaps putting a status flag on the reviewer?

	<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-01" status="s1">Carmelo
Montanez</test-reviewer>
	<test-reviewer review-date="2001-09-07" status="s2">Ben
Robb</test-reviewer>

You could then build your business rules to test to make sure that
*both* reviewers have the same status flag...

I'm going round in circles - I'll have a think about it tonight.

Rgs,

Ben


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carmelo Montanez [mailto:carmelo@nist.gov]
> Sent: 07 September 2001 15:01
> To: xslt-conformance@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Tracking Mechanism
> 
> 
> Hi All:
> 
>     Attached please find an "XML" file containing make 
> believe review data
> and a make believe HTML report.
> Comments, suggestions?
> 
> Greetings,
> Carmelo
>