[SPAM] Re: Input from Switzerland (CH) re WG4's processing of CH's DRs 08-0012, 08-0013, and 08-0014

[Horton, Gareth]

Jirka,

Do you agree with the Swiss position that the attribute be globally
required?

I think it would be acceptable to have the attribute optional and indeed
desired in T and required in S.

I also think that it has not been possible, given the information
provided, for the submitter to take into account all the aspects we have
discussed in WG4 as regards the relationship between S & T and the
possible direction to harmonization of T with ECMA-376, which, if
implemented, would serve as a palliative measure with respect to the
issue.

That may explain the rather hard line position, which I read as changing
ALL namespaces, both within S & T.


Gareth

-----Original Message-----
From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz] 
Sent: 12 June 2009 16:07
To: Rex Jaeschke
Cc: SC 34 WG4
Subject: [SPAM] Re: Input from Switzerland (CH) re WG4's processing of
CH's DRs 08-0012, 08-0013, and 08-0014

Rex Jaeschke wrote:

> On the second question:  It is a severe defect that it cannot in all 
> cases automatically be determined from OOXML files which version of 
> the specification they aim to conform to.  Furthermore, it is a severe

> defect also because it breaks general software for validating XML 
> against schemas, because such software must rely on the assumption 
> that the schema namespace, together with the version attribute if one 
> is present, uniquely identifies the schema to validate against.

Just quick comment: this is very common situation, for example XHTML,
DocBook and TEI have same "problem". Schema has to be determined by
using namespace + additional hint like version attribute. So in this
regard OOXML is not different from other widely used XML vocabularies.

I think that the latest Jesper's proposal about version attribute solves
this issue as producer has to opt-in for ISO 29500 version of OOXML by
explicitly using version attribute.

			Jirka

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