[occi-wg] Naming format for occi xsd file

[Gary Mazz]

Hi

I Just snipped this from David Snelling's email to the list. He 
preempted my request for a pointer to the spec he sent out below.:)

-g

David Snelling wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Also see http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.84.pdf for the OGF document  
> describing how this all work.
>
>   

Gary Mazz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all the replies.  They bring up two issues, the naming 
> convention, the intent of the initial email and a new topic, the host 
> name for the repository. I would like to discuss them separately. I'll 
> send out another email for the "host name" topic.
>
> From Andre's and Costas' replies, both recommends a date format. Also, 
> looking at the OCCI XML scheme for SLA at SOI, they use a date encoding 
> similar to the one described by Costas.
>
> From the current votes, the name space, the year and the month are in 
> common with Costas' proposal and the OFG's current scheme. I guess the 
> revision and sub revision are a nice artifacts to have in terms of 
> human understanding of the specification.
> Functionally, I do believe we will have schemes for multiple name 
> spaces, a new requirement the current OFG convention does not 
> currently address.
>
> Andre@ Would the OGF consider extending the naming policy for schemes 
> to include schema name spaces ?  Also, would the OGFconsider 
> modifying  the current  naming rules to  make them a little more human 
> friendly, as in Costas' proposal ?
> BTW, I searched for a OGF policy for naming schemes, I couldn't find 
> one. If anyone knows of one, I'd appreciate a pointer to it.
>
> cheers,
> gary
>
> Sam Johnston wrote:
>> Also note that thus far we've been using purl.org so as not to deter
>> external contributors.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On Monday, April 5, 2010, Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> Note that there is http://ogf.org/schemas/, which was created for
>>> exactly those purposes.
>>>
>>> Best, Andre.
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting [Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis] (Apr 05 2010):
>>>    
>>>> Hi Gary,
>>>>
>>>> How about:
>>>>
>>>> http://ogf.org/occi/[version]/[xsd namespace]/[yyyymmdd-c]
>>>>
>>>> where 'c' is an incremental revision counter that wraps each day? For
>>>> instance:
>>>>
>>>> http://ogf.org/occi/1.0/XML/20100405-2
>>>>
>>>> The first revision of Apr 06, 2010 would then end with 20100406-1.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Costas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5 Apr 2010, at 06:54, Gary Mazz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm writing the xsd files for occi as well as the rdfs definition. We
>>>>> will probably also end up with a number of xsd files, one for
>>>>> occi/xhtml5 another for xml or at the least, different versions of
>>>>> one.
>>>>>
>>>>> To keep the naming convention consistent,  we need to agree on a
>>>>> combining the occi name, occi version, xsd name space (XML, RDFa, 
>>>>> etc)
>>>>> and xsd version into a coherent naming rule.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggestions are welcome :)
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> gary
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