Fw: namespace and xsd for OASIS standards

fyi  

Alex, I think you're the one taking
care of this for us - let me know if you have further questions you'd like
me to persue.   

Regards, Diane

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Re: namespace and xsd for OASIS standards

Hi Diane,

  The first question is whether you're planning on using URI or URN
namespaces. I can tell you about some best practices for URI namespaces.
It's the eventual goal - but not yet a rule - that all namespaces should
be resolvable. That would mean it should point to docs.oasis-open.org/tcname/specname.
It doesn't mean that the object itself must be located there (although
that's one approach); it does mean that there should be some information
describing the thing that the namespace refers to and maybe links to additional
information. There is no best practice regarding use of month/year, and
it's not anticipated that it will be included in the rules once they're
completed. 

  Schema files - as dictated by best practice - should be a meaningful
name (something other than "x.xsd") but it's completely up to
the TC.

  I hope this helps!

Regards,

Mary

Diane Jordan wrote: 

We're preparing for public review and then approval and need to know whether
there is any direction from OASIS (rule, guideline, convention, best practice,
etc) on two points related to the schema: 

the namespaces for abstract process
templates will include a month and year.  What month should be used
for the public review and then final approval?  Should it be the current
month when we get to that stage, the target month for approval, or some
other time?   

is there a naming convention for the
XSD file?  Thanks.

Regards, Diane

IBM  Emerging Internet Software Standards



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