[jsdl-wg] Issues for the teleconference tomorrow

[Andreas Savva]

Karl, Michel

Karl Czajkowski wrote:
> On Mar 07, Michel Drescher loaded a tape reading:
> 
> 
>>1) Argument list handling in jsdl:Application
>>Basically, the modeling of command line arguments in a whole string is 
>>... cumbersome? I know, it works, but it looks ugly.

Michel, I think the word you were looking for was 'simple.' ;-)

>>Instead, I'd like to propose the following (in PseudoCode):
>>    <Application ... >
>>        ...
>>        <Arguments>
>>            <Arg order:xsd:positiveInteger>xsd:String</Arg>
>>        </Arguments>*
>>        ...
>>    </Application>
>>Every content in the jsdl:Arg element would be converted to quoted 
>>strings if it contains whitespaces.
>>
> 
> 
> I think you mean to have the "*" on the Argument element, not on
> the Arguments envelope, e.g.
> 
>   <Arguments>
>     <Argument>xsd:string</Argument>*
>     ...
>   </Arguments>?
> 
> I leave the "?" if Arguments is optional...
> 
> The order attribute is unnecessary.  The XML infoset model preserves
> "document order" for child elements, partly I think as this is
> critical to a lot of mixed-content approaches from SGML and HTML...

Good. I was going to object to the 'order' attribute. (For me that's 
ugly.) This would be ok.

>>3) Storage/bandwidth units
>>At the moment, we use a mixed set of units. SI defines two distinct 
>>sets of units: One based on 10, and one based on 2 (adopted by the 
>>IEC), having the 10 based units the normal prefix (like K, M, G, T, P 
>>and E) and the 2 based units the prefixes Ki, Mi(!), Gi, Ti, Pi and Ei.
>>I propose to use the SI units. For JSDL2, I propose to switch to an OID 
>>based system for these kind of units.
>>
> 
> 
> I agree.  To address your "Mi(!)" comment, the "i" is short for
> "bInary", e.g. "Ki" means "Kilo-binary" and "Mi" means "Mega-binary".
> It has been proposed that "MiB" would be pronounced "mebi bytes" as
> opposed to "maybe bites" or "Men in Black" :-)
> 

I could go for this too. (The UR-WG already did something like this, I 
believe.)


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Andreas Savva
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd