ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0737

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages

TITLE:	Summary of Voting on JTC 1/SC 34 N 708 - Text for CD Ballot - ISO/IEC CD 19757-8 - Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) Part 8 - Document Schema Renaming Language (DSRL)
SOURCE:	SC34 Secretariat
PROJECT:	CD 19757-8: Information technology - Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) - Part 8: Document Schema Renaming Language (DSRL)
PROJECT EDITOR:	Mr. Martin Bryan
STATUS:	Summary of voting
ACTION:	Based on the ballot responses, this CD is APPROVED and the project status changes to 30.60. Project Editors are requested to review comments and advise the Secretariat regarding (1) the change to status 30.92 or 30.99, and (2) the next project status and anticipated date that project status will change.
DATE:	2006-05-28
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO:	N0708b - 2006-02-26 - Ballot due 2006-05-26 - ISO/IEC CD 19757-8 - Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) Part 8 - Document Schema Renaming Language (DSRL) N0708 - 2006-02-26 - Text for CD Ballot - ISO/IEC CD 19757-8 - Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) Part 8 - Document Schema Renaming Language (DSRL)
REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 Network: masonjd@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.y12.doe.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Mr. G. Ken Holman (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org

Japan

1. General

User requirements should be made clearer so that the design choice can be justified. Specifically, is it necessary to provide all of the the following features?

• 1) changing interpretations of instances by embedding instructions in instances,
• 2) changing semantics of schemas by embedding instructions in schemas,
• 3) changing interpretations of instances and semantics of schemas by providing instructions as external files

One could certainly argue that 1) is useless, since users can rewrite an instance if they are willing to touch it (for embedding instructions) anyway. One could also argue that 2) is dangerous, since it encourages non-conformant implementations of RELAX NG (i.e., validators are requested to do what DSDL Part 2 does not say). One could also argue that XSLT and other XML transformation languages already provide 3).

We are not sure whether 2) is really possible, since RELAX NG schemas may be ambiguous.

2. Editorial

Use IRIs rather than URIs.

United Kingdom

We approve the overall technical direction of this draft of DSDL Part 8. We understand that substantial technical changes are to be made prior to a further CD ballot, and on that basis we will be making a more detailed technical evaluation of the next draft.