Re: Codelist usability issues - ease and performance design

Dear David,

	Thank you for your public comment regarding the OASIS Code List
Representation TC work:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/codelist-comment/200610/msg00000.html

We discussed it by e-mail and at our last teleconference.  I am replying
on behalf of the TC.

It is always easiest to reply to specific comments about a specific
version of specification (or draft thereof).  Your comments are more
general in character.  For the most part, your comments appear to be
targetted at people who are implementing run-time code list validation
mechanisms.  Run-time validation mechanisms are outside of the scope of
the current work of the TC.  The current work is focussed on modelling and
encoding code lists for transmission between users and systems.  How
implementers of run-time validation systems choose to use that code list
information, and represent it for run-time usage, is not in scope.  We
expect there will be many ways that people will use this information (e.g.
in repositories and database tables, encoded into XML Schemas and Java
enumeration classes, etc.).

We discussed your comments about constructing XML documents so that they
are composed of logical parts that can be externally referenced.  We note
that these comments apply to XML generally, not to code lists in
particular.  As such, this TC isn't planning to define a generic mechanism
of that sort (nor software to support that mechanism).  We are potential
users of such mechanisms defined elsewhere (including XInclude, for
example).

Note that we have just published our requirements document for informal
public review

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=20944

and that this document references materials that have been contributed to
the TC as an input (see

http://www.genericode.org/

).

Cheers, Tony.

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Anthony B. Coates
Senior Partner
Miley Watts LLP
Experts In Data
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