- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:28:11 -0500
- To: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Grosso, Paul scripsit: > Is there some word(s) missing here? I'm not sure how to > parse the clause following the comma. Oops, yes. I dropped the last three words somehow: they were "should be added". Here's a restatement of the list with an additional issue: 1) XForms inherits the definition of "id" from the language in which it is embedded; as such, it cannot be readily imbedded in a language where the ID attribute is "xml:id". Either should be allowed. 2) There is a normative reference to XForms 1.0 that seems unnecessary, as XForms 1.1 is self-contained. 3) The types xforms:dayTimeDuration and yearMonthDuration should be moved to the list of datatypes that allow empty content in 5.2.7, and their places should be occupied by the types xs:dayTimeDuration and xs:yearMonthDuration. These types are in the XML Schema namespace, but are defined by the XQuery 1.0/XSLT 2.0 data model. 4) xs: seems to be preferred to xsd: as the prefix for the XML Schema namespace; xsd: suggests the XML Schema Datatypes namespace. 5) The XForms-specific procedures should be harmonized with the XPath 2.0 function library where possible. 6) XForms 1.1 refers to the standard ISO/IEC 7812-1 normatively in order to define the credit card checksum algorithm. This standard is available only for $$$$, and I think the algorithm should be restated in XForms 1.1 and the reference changed to an informative one. The algorithm itself is in the public domain; an adequate specification of it can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm . -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. --Thomas Henry Huxley
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