Shawn,<br><br>My understanding is the opposite. It looks like JISC was afraid that the length were in octet<br><br>So the way to solve this is to make the word "character" points to a definition of "unicode character" in Terms and Definitions<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Mohamed<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Shawn Villaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shawnv@microsoft.com">shawnv@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p>Greetings,</p><p> </p><p>I’m hoping that one of the XML experts on WG4 can help me determine the right approach for handling a set of open defect reports.</p><p> </p><p>
The following defect reports relate to the lengths of buffers for some of our entities:</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">DR 09-0063 — WML, Fields: Form Field Properties length</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §17.16.17, “ffData (Form Field Properties)”, p. 1412</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">DR 09-0064 — WML, Simple Types: ST_FFHelpTextVal length</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §17.18.25, “ST_FFHelpTextVal”, p. 1534</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">DR 09-0065 — WML, Simple Types: ST_FFName length</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §17.18.26, ST_FFName, p. 1535</p><p style="margin-left: 0..5in;">DR 09-0066 — WML, Simple Types: ST_MacroName length</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §17.18.51, “ST_MacroName”, p. 1563</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">DR 09-0068 — SML, Styles: name attribute length</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §18.8.29, “name (Font Name)”, p. 1965</p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">DR 09-0069 — SML, Pivot Tables: longText attribute length</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"> Part 1, §18.10.1.90, “sharedItems (Shared Items)”, p. 2164</p><p> </p><p>We’ve currently defined each of these buffers in terms of number of characters. My notes say that there is WG4 interest in understanding the lengths of these in octets. But that’s where I’m getting confused.</p>
<p> </p><p>Since XML specifies a character encoding, shouldn’t <b>characters</b> be the right unit of measurement here? I’ve verified that the buffers defined are correct, so if we’re just waiting for verification, we can write this up and close them out; if we need to use a different unit of measurement, if you can help me figure out what the right unit of measurement is, I can get them written up tomorrow.</p>
<p> </p><p>To be clear, I don’t have a strong opinion here; rather, I’d prefer to tap into the XML expertise on WG4 to inform me on the best approach.</p><p> </p><p>As you can imagine, I’m super interested in getting proposals to all of these out ASAP. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p> </p><p>Thanks!</p><p> </p><font color="#888888"><p>shawn</p><p> </p></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Innovimax SARL<br>Consulting, Training & XML Development<br>9, impasse des Orteaux<br>
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