Re: Response to WebCGM 2.1 Last Call comment

Dear Mohamed,

Thank you for your response.

The WebCGM Working Group acknowledges that you are satisfied with our
resolution about your first comment regarding the XML Schema or Relax NG.

Regarding your second comment "interaction between WebCGM and CSS"
you have requested in your last email, "to consider adding an
informative note on that work in the spec (with one or two sentence along)".

The WebCGM Working Group had fulfilled your request and has added an
informative note regarding CSS.
This note is incorporated into the WebCGM 2.1 CR version and is available at

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/drafts/current-editor-21/WebCGM21-Concepts.html#DOM-scope 


See paragraphs 3-4, as well as the new linked non-normative reference to 
"Stylable CGM" in 1.3.


Please reply and let us know whether you accept the WG
response or not.

This issue is our last before requesting CR transition to the Director.
Please reply ASAP, in order to not delay our publication track.


Best regards,

Thierry Michel.



Innovimax SARL wrote:
> Dear Lofton,
> 
> Please find my answer inside the email
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com 
> <mailto:lofton@rockynet.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear Mohamed,
> 
>     The WebCGM Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1]
>     about the WebCGM 2.1 Second Last Call Working Draft [2] published on
>     04 June 2009.  Thank you for having taken the time to review the
>     document and send us comments.
> 
>     The Working Group's response resolution to your comment is included
>     below.
> 
>     Please review it carefully and acknowledge this WebCGM WG response
>     by replying to this mail and copying the WebCGM public mailing list,
>     public-webcgm@w3.org <mailto:public-webcgm@w3.org>.  Please reply
>     before 17 August 2009, and let us know whether you accept the WG
>     response or not.  If we receive no reply from you by August 17, then
>     we will default your reply to "WebCGM WG response accepted."
> 
>     In case you do not accept the WG response, you are requested to
>     provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus with the
>     Working Group.
> 
>     If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the
>     opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be reviewed
>     by the Director during the transition of this document to the next
>     stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     On behalf of the WebCGM Working Group,
>     Lofton Henderson, WebCGM WG Chair.
> 
>     [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm/2009Jun/0002.html
>     [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090604/
>     _____________________________________________________________
>     * Comment Sent: Sat, 20 Jun 2009
>     * Archived:
>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm/2009Jun/0002.html
>     The WebCGM WG has the following responses to your comment:
>     ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     SUMMARY of your first comment:
>     1 == moving forward with XML Schema or Relax NG ==
>     Sticking to DTD to define a XML dialect is neither sufficient
>     neither a way to widespread the use of this XML dialect. For that, I
>     ask the WG to consider providing normative XML Schema and/or Relax
>     NG schema of the XCF model. It will help adoption especially because
>     XCF uses Namespaces.
> 
>     RESPONSE to your first comment:
>     The WebCGM Working Group (WG) agrees that WebCGM could potentially
>     benefit by addition of a normative schema -- XML Schema or Relax NG.
>     Unfortunately, this proposal is beyond the scope of this 2nd LCWD
>     review, and it is deemed to be too late in the WebCGM 2.1
>     development cycle. Ideally, such a proposal would have been included
>     in the WebCGM 2.1 Requirements, or before 1st LCWD review at latest.
>     The implementation of such a proposal would involve major disruption
>     of the WebCGM 2.1 text -- removal of the DTD and complete rewriting
>     of Chapter 4 (at least). Since it does not address an error in the
>     specification, or a serious defect, or violation of any W3C
>     requirement, the WG believes that the proposal should be postponed
>     until a future WebCGM development cycle.
> 
> 
> Fair enough. I was not suggesting removing the DTD 
> 
> 
> 
>     As an interim step, the WG thinks that a non-normative Technical
>     Note, separate from the progression of 2.1 WebCGM, might be an
>     interesting approach. The WG would also welcome an initial
>     contribution, if you have interest in making such.
> 
> 
> That's seems exactly what I proposed. I'm sorry since I don't have any 
> initial contribution, but I will be happy to give it a try or to review 
> them with care
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     SUMMARY of your second comment:
>     2 == interaction between WebCGM and CSS ==
>     Is it possible to consider the role that could play CSS vis à vis
>     WebCGM ?
> 
>     RESPONSE to your second comment:
>     Potential relationships between WebCGM and CSS were studied in some
>     detail [3] prior to the WebCGM 2.0 standardization. This study [3]
>     developed a detailed model and showed the technical feasibility for
>     a rich application of CSS-like styling to WebCGM.
>     [3] http://www.cgmopen.org/technical/stylable_cgm_submitted_0324.pdf
> 
> 
> Is it possible to consider adding an informative note on that work in 
> the spec (with one or two sentence along), if it is not already there ?
>  
> 
> 
>     Despite the technical feasibility, the WebCGM 2.0 authors and
>     constituents agreed that the the principal WebCGM use cases did not
>     justify the cost and implementation effort of such a full-featured
>     normative CSS capability in WebCGM. Therefore normative CSS-like
>     style sheets were not further pursued.
> 
>     Nevertheless, whenever possible, applicable features and
>     characteristics of CSS were followed in the design of WebCGM 2.0,
>     especially the new DOM-based Style Properties feature. For example
>     the inheritance model of CSS was adapted directly into the Style
>     Properties inheritance model (section 5.4), and there are a number
>     of other examples of functionality borrowed more-or-less directly
>     from CSS.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your answers
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mohamed
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