[Bug 4630] Clarify relation of SML and XML 1.0 vs 1.1

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4630





------- Comment #6 from popescu@ca.ibm.com  2007-09-06 16:55 -------
Re comment #5

Pratul: The first para states that SML uses a profile of XML Schema 1.0 - which
is not true any longer. 
Valentina : I tried to use the existing statements. In section 4.Schemas, the
first paragraph reads : 'SML uses a profile of W3C XML Schema 1.0 [XML Schema
Structures, XML Schema Datatypes] to define constraints on the structure of
data in a model.' If this not true anymore than this section should be updated
as well.

Pratul: I also don't understand the phrase "and defines datatypes
depending on definitions in XML 1.0" - the SML datatypes are based on XML
Schema 1.0 and not XML 1.0
Valentina: Probably not the best description on how SML relates to XML 1.0. The
only reference I could find on XML 1.0 in the SML document is on section 2.2
Terminology : Document is a 'A well-formed XML 1.0 document, as defined in [XML
1.0].' 
I am not quite sure how to put this into a normative dependency, I need 
suggestions.

Pratul:I am not comfortable with the last para since we are not providing any
guidance on how the "most recent versions" should be used. 
Valentina: This is the 'open ceiling' agreed to in the f2f. If more is to be
said here I think we need some brainstorming on what this should would be. 

Pratul:Plus, the para appears to be redundant since the 2nd para has already
made it clear that implementations can use newer versions of the spec.
Valentina: Not identical. The last paragraph talks about ANY of the Normative
references as defined in the References section; this is more than XML, XML
Schema, Schematron and XPath. Second paragraph talks only about those 4

Received on Thursday, 6 September 2007 16:55:14 UTC