N0xxx - Japan's comments on SC34 N526: WD/DSDL-8

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TITLE:	Japan's comments on SC34 N526: WD/DSDL-8 Declarative document architectures
SOURCE:	SC34/Japan
STATUS:	Response to SC34 N526
ACTION:	Discussion in the WG1 meeting, Sept. 2004
DATE:	2004-08-22
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 Network: masonjd@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.y12.doe.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Mr. G. Ken Holman (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org/

Japan's comments on SC34 N526: WD/DSDL-8 Declarative document architectures

(1) Drop XPath, since it makes implementation difficult.

(2) Drop entity renaming. It cannot be implemented without changing XML parsers.

(3) Examples are strongly required.