[occi-wg] Comments on OCCI XHTML Document

[Thijs Metsch]

Thanks Gary! I'll use the suggestions as the first input of our public 
comment phase. Right now I'm uploading the docs into the editor tracker 
of OGF.

Cheers,

-Thijs

Gary Mazz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got to start on some editorial changes to the OCCI XHTLM document. 
> This is my quick stab at the first few paragraphs. These recommendations 
> can be evaluated when the document is in the OGF comment pipeline.
> 
> -gary
> 
> 
> *Abstract: Paragraph 1:*
> 
> This document describes elements of the Open Cloud Computing Interface 
> (OCCI) represented as an XHTML document.  This document is part of the 
> Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) specification. The OCCI 
> specification describes actions,  semantics, a data representation and 
> protocol to uniformly administer IaaS clouds over HTTP. The OCCI 
> specification is divided into the following sections:
> 
> *Abstract: Paragraph 2:
> *• The OCCI Core Model
> • The OCCI Infrastructure Model
> 
> *Abstract: Paragraph 3:*
> The OCCI specification is configured as a document set. Each section is 
> described in a separate specification document. All sections and the 
> information within are mandatory for implementors (unless otherwise
> specified).
> 
> * 1.1. Introduction: Paragraph 1:
> *This specification provides the normative rules and recommendations 
> that describe the structure of the Open Cloud Computing Interface's 
> actions,  semantics, data representations and other corresponding 
> elements as XHTML documents. This specification defines all XHTML 
> elements relevant to representing the OCCI elements in XHTML; describes 
> how OCCI elements are represented as XHTML document elements and defines 
> OCCI elements are functionally equivalent with each XHTML element.  The 
> XHTML specification defines document elements, including organizations, 
> data, meta data, and representation formats, not defined and not 
> applicable to the OCCI specifications. All OCCI conformant 
> implementations will adhere to the definitions prescribed in this 
> specification.
> 
> *1.2. XHTML5: Paragraph 1: (new)
> *XHTML5 is an XML-based “concrete syntax” of the “World Wide Web's 
> “abstracted markup language, HTML5.  The XHTML5 specification mandates 
> syntax to be well formed significantly reducing potential for document 
> misinterpretation.  For the purposes of this specification, we limit the 
> scope of the XHTML specifications to the "XHTML Basic document" 
> referenced as TR/2008/REC-xhtml-basic-20080729.
> The XHTML Basic document type includes the minimal set of modules 
> required to be an XHTML host language document type, and in addition it 
> includes images, forms, basic tables, and object support. It is designed 
> for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for 
> example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop 
> boxes. The document type definition is implemented using XHTML modules 
> as defined in the W3C doument "XHTML Modularization"
> 
> 
> 
> *
> *
> 
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