[dsdl-discuss] Re: Result of the ballot

These are my comments to the ballot results:

1. Canada

I must not reveal any internal information from the W3C to make the
situation even worse, but I can confirm what is already known. The XSL
WG evaluates streaming transformation use cases. Both main authors of
STX (Oliver Becker and myself) have been invited to take part in this
effort. The goal is not to put STX into the standardization track but to
analyse what can be achieved with XSLT. STX 1.0 is treated as one of
inputs for this effort. It is premature to expect any specific results
from the XSL WG in this phase.

We agreed to submit STX to the SC34 before the XSL WG has decided to
look at the streaming and has invited us, but it was already known that
the W3C may consider some effort in this area, upon a request of some
members. I had no idea this would be perceived as a conflict and I still
believe I can provide solid arguments for this position. But apparently,
there are people on both sides who feel it differently, and I'm very
sorry about it. I will clear up my position with the XSL WG at a meeting
in Belgium the next week, and I'm also ready to discuss this issue in
this mailing list.

2. Japan

Their argument is clear and I do accept it. I also appreciate the four
suggested options. My preferable way would be to focus on the
combination of Schematron and STXPath. We know that Schematron already
allows STXPath as query language but an expressiveness of this
combination is rather low. This limitation could be passed over using a
little microformat-like extension to Schematron (to control buffering).
The Part 6 then could consist of the specs of this extension module,
perhaps plus the specs of STXPath - provided nobody in ISO/ETC nor W3C
minds.

I will be happy to elaborate more on this topic if you feel it can make
sense.

Regards,
Petr

G. Ken Holman - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat Manager wrote:
> The Japanese response is shown in the current version posted August 7
> after a number of countries waited until after the results were posted
> before noticing that some of the votes had not been received:
>
> http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0899rev2.htm
>
> For future reference the status of receipt of national body votes is
> recorded at:
>
> http://www.jtc1sc34.org/document/secretariat_temp.html#calballot
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> At 2007-08-12 22:26 +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> For some reason, the Japanese vote did not appear to reach the SC34
>> secretariat. But Japan intended to vote uncoditional no. Here
>> is the vote.
>>
>> __X__
>> "DISAPPROVE" - DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED
>>
>> P-member voting: JP
>> Date: 2007-07-31
>> Submitted by: Yushi KOMACHI
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Attachment:
>> Japan's Comments on SC34 N862: Document Schema Definition Languages
>> (DSDL) - Part 6:
>> Path-based integrity constraints
>> Japan believes that STX is not a schema language and it is thus
>> outside the scope
>> of the DSDL project.
>> Japan would like to suggest the following four possibilities:
>> - Start a NP for STX as a stream-based XML transformation language.
>> - Create an working draft for STXPath as a part of DSDL.
>> - Extend Schematron so that STXPath can be used as a query language
>> of Schematron.
>> - Create an identity constraint language that can be implemented via
>> the translation
>> to STX. Note that Schematron is implemented via the translation from
>> Schematron to XSLT.
>
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