RE: [ciq] CIQ TC members, Please cast your vote

[Nikolaj Nyholm <nikolajn@ascio.com>]

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SUPPORT FOR DTD AND/OR W3C SCHEMA IN CIQ STANDARDS

Your Name: Nikolaj Nyholm, Ascio Technologies

1. We will support both DTD and W3C schema for future versions
   of CIQ Standards:  NO 
2. We will support only W3C Schema for future versions
   of CIQ Standards:  YES
3. We will support only DTD for future versions
   of CIQ Standards:  NO 

Comments, if any: 
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DTD is used to describe SGML instances and XML is itself an SGML instance. 
The w3c schema design principles align better with CIQ req.'s/purposes..:

<quotation from w3c scema req. document>
4. Design Principles
In the design of any language, trade-offs in the solution space are
necessary. The following design principles should guide the working group in
making these trade-offs. Design principles are desirable, but not fully
measurable, characteristics. 

The XML schema language shall be:

more expressive than XML DTDs; 
expressed in XML; 
self-describing; 
usable by a wide variety of applications that employ XML; 
straightforwardly usable on the Internet; 
optimized for interoperability; 
simple enough to implement with modest design and runtime resources; 
coordinated with relevant W3C specs (XML Information Set, Links, Namespaces,
Pointers, Style and Syntax, as well as DOM, HTML, and RDF Schema). 
The XML schema language specification shall:

be prepared quickly; 
be precise, concise, human-readable, and illustrated with examples.

</quotation>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ram Kumar [mailto:rkumar@msi.com.au] 
> Sent: 13. februar 2002 01:40
> To: ciq@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: karl.best@oasis-open.org
> Subject: [ciq] CIQ TC members, Please cast your vote
> 
> 
> CIQ TC members,
> 
> We need to decide on whether we are going to support both DTD and
> W3C Schema for our future versions of the CIQ Standards. To support
> both DTD and W3C Schema, it is more work and in particular, when it
> comes to namespace handling (which we intend to strongly 
> support in our 
> future versions), DTD really suffers.
> 
> Can you please cast in your vote by answering the following questions
> that will enable us to get a common view of the CIQ TC 
> regarding this? 
> Please cast in your vote by Friday, 22 February 2002? Thanks
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ram Kumar
> 
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> SUPPORT FOR DTD AND/OR W3C SCHEMA IN CIQ STANDARDS
> 
> Your Name:
> 
> 1. We will support both DTD and W3C schema for future versions
>    of CIQ Standards:  YES/NO 
> 2. We will support only W3C Schema for future versions
>    of CIQ Standards:  YES/NO 
> 3. We will support only DTD for future versions
>    of CIQ Standards:  YES/NO 
> 
> Comments, if any: 
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