Re: Response to your XML Schema Issue, LC-189

Hello Asir,

Please take me down as 'not particularly pleased with outcome,
but don't want to push it' on this one.
[I.e. I want my dissent to be recorded, but not for the attention
of the W3C Director.]

Regards,    Martin.

At 00/09/28 09:13 -0400, Asir S Vedamuthu wrote:
>Dear Martin,
>
>The W3C XML Schema Working Group has spent the last several months working
>through the comments received from the public on the last-call draft of the
>XML Schema specification.  We thank you for the comments you made on our
>specification during our last-call comment period, and want to make sure you
>know that all comments received during the last-call comment period have
>been recorded in our last-call issues list
>(http://www.w3.org/2000/05/12-xmlschema-lcissues).
>
>Among other issues, you raised the point[1] registered as issue LC-189,
>which suggests that XML Schema should define a more compact method of
>defining enumerations of values.
>
>WG discussed this issue at length in the comments list [2] and at the
>Edinburgh face-to-face meeting. Many members of the WG were sympathetic to
>your suggestion. But, the general consensus was against this change because
>it impacts 'string' and 'list' datatype.
>
>It would be helpful to us to know whether you are satisfied with the
>decision taken by the WG on this issue, or wish your dissent from the WG's
>decision to be recorded for consideration by the Director of the W3C.
>
>[1]
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2000AprJun/0233.
>html
>[2]
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2000AprJun/0258.
>html
>
>Asir S Vedamuthu
>Member, W3C XML Schema WG
>
>webMethods USA. (703) 460-2513 asirv@webmethods.com
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>

Received on Monday, 2 October 2000 23:06:06 UTC