[dsdl-discuss] Re: Draft of Part 7 Character Repertoire Valdiation

My initial (unofficial comments) on Rick's draft are:

Foreword
List of standards needs updating to current version numbering, 1-10, and
current part names

Scope, 2nd Para
"use" should be "uses"

Normative References, 2nd Para
The para in front of the entries should be removed as it is a subset of the
standard paragraph that is automatically added at the start of this section.

The paragraph beginning "The definitions..." needs to be under the
terms-and-definitions element (the rnc model needs updating to allow this
need)

Reference should be added to ISO 10646 as default source of character set
naming conventions

Clause 4
The value of the language attribute specified in para 2 should reflect the
source of the definitions, and not reference the xpath spec. It should be
either DSDL-charrep, DSDL-7, ISO19757-charrep or ISO19757-7.

This clause currently fails to explain:
 1) The role of the schema, title and pattern wrapper elements
 2) The origin of the names used to refer to character sets (which should
make reference to ISO 10646 names at least)
 3) How user-defined character sets can be defined and named.

Annex A:
In first para change "the schema language" to "this standard"
In second item change Dutch to French in both places. NB: Dutch has no
accented characters and only one additional character that I am aware of:
the example should show how the set of accented characters relevant for
French can be split out of ISO-8859-1 in such a way that any characters used
solely for other European languages (e.g. German, Spanish, Swedish, etc) are
flagged as errors.

Annex B:
See comments on Annex A re need to change second example to cover French
rather than Dutch.
Re first example, does @name() pick up the element name rather than just
name()?
In fourth example, where does IsSmallFormVariants name come from?

There also needs to be another appendix listing all the existing character
set names from the Multiplane set as these provide default names for
character sets. This list can be taken from Diedrick's 2003-11-17 text for
Part 7. In general we need to add many of the functions provided by
Diedrick's draft for allowing users to define their own character subsets
before this can become a realistic CD text, though it makes a good first WD.
Thanks Rick

Martin Bryan

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