- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:39 -0400
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Below is my draft response. Once I started writing it, I thought of some other issues (e.g., general availability of the xml-model spec), so I threw them in. Comments? (Mohamed, others, any better suggestions for how best to address Toshiko Kimura? He addressed the email to me "Mr. Grosso".) (As another aside, I added kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp to public-xml-core-wg@w3.org's accept2 list.) paul ------------------------------------------------ Eventually-To: Toshiko Kimura [mailto:kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp] Eventually-Cc: Alex Brown; mzergaoui@innovimax.fr; jirka@kosek.cz; liam@w3.org Dear Kimura-san, Thank you for your request regarding SC 34's desire to use the processing instruction target name token "xml-model" in Part 11 of ISO/IEC 19757 (DSDL). As you are aware, the XML Recommendation reserves names beginning with 'xml' for standardization in this or future versions of this specification. The XML Core WG feels any such names would need to be used by other specifications only in carefully specified, well-defined ways. We are therefore pleased you have brought us into the discussion at the beginning of the process. In general, we are receptive to your request, but at this time we do not have a lot of details, so we are eager to exchange ideas so that we can work together to ensure the best result. If we are going to allow the use of the xml-model name, we would want an xml-model PI to be generic enough to be used by any application to associate any kind of schema with an XML document. The XML Core WG would like to be able to review drafts of the xml-model spec throughout its development. We assume that the general syntax and semantics for most of the pseudo-attributes for the xml-model processing instruction will parallel that as defined in the Associating Stylesheet (AssocSS) spec that defines the xml-stylesheet processing instruction. You should know that we are in the process of developing a new edition of the AssocSS spec, so you should be sure to coordinate your specification with our latest version. (The additions are mostly clarifications on error or other edge conditions.) We assume you will be writing a specification for xml-model that will be referenceable by everyone on the Web free of charge so that anyone wishing to support the xml-model PI for any reason--not just for DSDL--will have an official reference for it. If this is not practical for you, then we would want to be able to republish the xml-model PI spec as a W3C publication (e.g., a WG Note or a W3C Recommendation). One detail the xml-model spec would have to address is the interaction of the xml-model PI with xsi:schemaLocation and similar attributes. The XML Core WG looks forward to working together with SC 34 to achieve a satisfactory result for all concerned. Best regards, Paul Grosso for the XML Core WG
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