DR-08-0014: Shared MLs, Shared Simple Types: ST_String example description error

[Shawn Villaron]

In today's teleconference, we agreed to one more change to this text ( highlighted ), which is as follows:

22.9.2.13 ST_String (String)
This simple type specifies that its contents contains a string. The contents of this string are interpreted based on
the context of the parent XML element.

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment:

<w:pPr>
        <w:pStyle w:val="heading1" />
</w:pPr>

The value of the val attribute is the ID of the associated paragraph style's styleId. However, consider the
following fragment:

<w:sdtPr>
        <w:alias w:val="SDT Title Example" />
        ...
</w:sdtPr>

In this case, the decimal number in the val attribute is the caption of the parent structured document tag. In
each case, the value is of type ST_String, and therefore must be interpreted in the context of the parent
element. end example]

This simple type's contents are a restriction of the W3C XML Schema string datatype.

It was concluded that, with this new change, we would move this response to LAST CALL.

Thanks,

shawn

_____________________________________________
From: Shawn Villaron
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:22 PM
To: 'MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)'; e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: RE: DR-08-0014: Shared MLs, Shared Simple Types: ST_String example description error


In the interest of making progress on the other DRs, let's make the following change to 22.9.2.13:

22.9.2.13 ST_String (String)
This simple type specifies that its contents contains a string. The contents of this string are interpreted based on
the context of the parent XML element.

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment:

<w:pPr>
        <w:pStyle w:val="heading1" />
</w:pPr>

The value of the val attribute is the ID of the associated paragraph style's styleId. However, consider the
following fragment:

<w:sdtPr>
        <w:alias w:val="SDT Title Example" />
        ...
</w:sdtPr>

In this case, the decimal number in the val attribute is the caption of the parent structured document tag. In
each case, the value is of type ST_String, and therefore must be interpreted in the context of the parent
element. end example]

This simple type's contents are a restriction of the W3C XML Schema string datatype.

I believe that these changes will resolve all of the discussions we've had thus far on the reflector.  Perhaps we can move this defect report to last call?

Thanks,

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) [mailto:eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp]
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:46 AM
To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: Re: DR-08-0014: Shared MLs, Shared Simple Types: ST_String example description error

> I do believe that the current text of 22.9.2.13 serves a purpose: that
> attributes of the same name, used in different contexts, have
> potentially different meanings.

Context dependencies do not belong to ST_String but belong to
attributes or elements, and thus should not be described here.

There are other semantic issues about strings, such as case-(in)sensitivity..
When no other such semantic issues are mentioned here, why should
we care context dependencies?

Cheers,

--
Makoto <EB2M-MRT at asahi-net.or.jp>



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