[osis-core] x- usage?

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick and Steve,

Yes to "x-" for ALL cases of "type" attributes.

Currently we have not defined any enumerated values for subType.  

I say we also put "x-" on ALL subTypes and reserve the right to define
values in the future.  This would also make type and subType consistent
with each other.

When we create named simple and complex types in the "next" release
(after 1.5) it might be a good idea to create a simple type in the style
of "osisDivs" for all elements (the enumerated lists would be empty
initially).  This would create the potential to extend only the
enumerated types in a derived schema if we decided we didn't want to
bloat the core schema with type values specific to different type of
documents.

Todd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:23 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] x- usage?
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Steven J. DeRose wrote:
> 
> > On element that do *not* provide any predefined type values, should
we
> > still restrict users to prefixing their values with "x-", so that we
> > can safely reseerve values later if we want to, and so that user
> > extensions are always readily findable?
> 
> Fine by me.
> 
> Recall that elements may have attributes defined as globalWithType
(has
> attributes type and subtype, both as xs:string). Would your proposal
> require both to have the "x-" prefix for all values?
> 
> Attributes are also defined in globalWithoutType, which allows an
> element to have a defined type but it also has a subtype with
xs:string.
> Same question for the subtype attribute here?
> 
> Already have the simpleType "attributeExtension" so we can just set
the
> type/subtype attribute type to that. If later define a type of an
> element, just union the enumeration with "attributeExtension."
> 
> Fairly clean and requires minimal changes.
> 
> Comments, suggestions?
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --
> Patrick Durusau
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> Society of Biblical Literature
> Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> 
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