ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N259
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34
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Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages
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TITLE: |
Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 226 - CD Ballot for Topic Map Constraint Language - (New JTC 1 NP Number - ISO/IEC 19756) |
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SC 34 Secretariat |
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PROJECT EDITOR: |
S. Pepper |
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ACTION: |
The results of this ballot being forwarded
to WG 3 to address the national body comments received and submit a revised
text using the new JTC 1 NP Number – ISO/IEC 19756. |
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SC34 and Liaisons |
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REPLY TO: |
Dr. James David Mason |
SC 34 N 259
2001-10-04
SC 34 Voting Summary on JTC 1/SC 34 N 226
CD Ballot for Topic Map Constraint Language
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P-Member |
APPROVAL OF THE
DRAFT AS PRESENTED |
APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT
WITH COMMENTS AS GIVEN ON THE ATTACHED |
DISAPPROVAL OF THE
DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED |
Acceptance of these
reasons and appropriate changes in the text will change our vote to approval |
ABSTENTION (For
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Brazil |
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Canada |
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China |
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Denmark |
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France |
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Ireland |
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Italy |
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Japan |
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Republic of Korea |
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Netherlands |
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Norway |
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United Kingdom |
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United States |
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According to the JTC 1 Directives, Section 9.4.3
Consideration of successive CD/PDAM/PDISP/PDTRs (types 2 and 3) shall continue until the substantial support of the P-members of the committee has been obtained or a decision to abandon or defer the project has been reached.
SC 34 National Body Comments on N 226
Italy
Abstention due to the lack of experts.
Japan
1. Add the clause of Scope,
which should include the description in the scope field of NP(SC34 N221):
mechanisms for expressing constraints on classes of topic maps conforming to
ISO/IEC 13250:2000.
2. The Title should be
"Topic Map Constraint Language", as shown in the NP, rather than
"Draft requirements, examples, and a "low bar" proposal for
Topic Map Constraint Language (TMCL)".
3. Add the clause of
Normative References. It should include DAML/OIL, KIF, OKBC, OCL, PAL (Protege
Axiom Language), which are referred to in 1. of N226.
United Kingdom
It is unnecessary to define "ontology" as a term within the constraint language. (The term is defined is
such a way as to clash with the definition of this term as used in other international standards.)
Clause 3.1
Add the following:
Valid Facets
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Example 1.7 Constrain the relationship between two or more facets
Example: The value of the effectiveStartDate facent must precede that to the effectiveEndDate facet
Clause 3.3.
Add the following:
Example 3.5 Occurrences of type "0" must have a facet whose value matches an expression
Example: Occurrences of type "map" must have a DatePublished facet whose value is greater than
1st January 1995.
Clause 3.4
Replace ??? by
- which topics may only be used for typing association rules
- which topics may not be used for typing association rules
and add:
Example 4.1 Constrain the topic "T" so that it cannot be used for typing associations
Example: The topic "Martin Bryan" cannot be used as the type of an association
Clause 3.5
Change "which topics can be used for scoping" to "which topics can be used as added themes"
In examples 5.1 and 5.2 change "themes" to "added themes"
Clause 5, A simple
low bar proposal
It must be possible to distinguish constraint language statements from topic maps. At the least
constraint statements should be enclosed in a <tcml> element or be assigned a tcml namespace.
In the examples the only reference to tcml is via subjectIndicatorRefs that point to concepts that
would presumably be defined in the standard.
This seems inadequate to distinguish constraint rules from other topics. The UK strongly believes that XML element contents should not place constraints on their parents.