[dsdl-discuss] Re: W3C ITS (Internationalization Tag Set) might be of interest forDSDL Part 8

Martin>
Martin> Incidentally, I intend to propose dropping the "in schema" approach in
Martin> Seoul. Is there anyone who is particularly keen to see this approach
Martin> developed? (From a marketing point of view it would be useful to drop,
Martin> especially as I want to promote the "Learn DSRL in 5 minutes" idea.)

I believe that the other two approaches ("inline" and "separate rules file ")
also require clear justifications.

> Japan's Comments on SC34 N708: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) Part 8:
> Document Schema Renaming Language (DSRL)
> 1. General
> User requirements should be made clearer so that the design choice canbe 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 NGschemas may be ambiguous.
> 2. Editorial
> Use IRIs rather than URIs.

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MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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