We can do that in XForms, but before we do anything, we need to find
out if DHS thinks we should, and in fact, having worked on it, and
having looked through the NIMS-90 document, I'm not at all sure we
should take on this work unless asked. But as for the XSD v. XForms
issue, I would recommend compatible versions of both within the same
spec for a couple of reasons, mainly that it is almost guaranteed
that there will be a need to dynamically update the information using
a telephonic and/or wireless connection so conversion/translation
into VXML and/or WML seems inevitable and ought to be included in the
overall plan from the outset. That overall plan is for DHS to set
forth, so I think we need to get in touch with Steve Cooper or
someone at DHS on this. We have both a history with them, and a need
for an ongoing connection/liaison with them. The question is what is
the most appropriate approach to make contact and who should do this.
That's both a personal contact and/or organizational jurisdiction
question. I don't have an answer for that, but I suggest asking Jamie
Tuesday, and also seeing if either Tom Merkle or Gary Ham can suggest
a good approach.
Ciao,
Rex
At 2:09 PM -0500 4/1/04, R. Allen Wyke wrote:
>You know, I have been thinking more and more about this - about how
>we are approaching it. Being that our TC, nor anyone here, gave
>birth to ICS nor the 201 form, I am a little concerned that we might
>be overstepping our bounds to consider creating an XML schema
>representation of it.
>
>Perhaps a more politically correct approach would be to defined an
>XForms (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/) model of the form and maybe
>even suggest that implementations should use the XForms UI
>vocabulary to "draw" the actual form in a browser, in an app, on a
>phone, etc.? Something just doesn't feel right about us defining an
>actual XML schema, BUT using XML for us to describe a form....well,
>that may result in not only better work on our part, because of the
>power of XForms, but also in something that gives credit where
>credit is due (and doesn't claim credit for something that isn't
>ours).
>
>Anyone else have an opinion on this one way or the other? Its
>possible we can't do what we need in XForms, but it couldn't hurt to
>check.
>
>On Mar 13, 2004, at 9:58 AM, wrote:
>
>>The document ICS-201-draft0.2.xsd has been submitted by Rex Brooks
>>() to the OASIS Emergency Management TC document
>>repository.
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