EPWG Meeting Paris 040721

All,

 

I attended the EPWG 
meeting in Paris on July 21, 2004 to present the current status of CGM Open's 
work.

 

The motivation 
behind this are the problems that have been discovered with the "S1000D CGM 
Profile", which is described in their spec but inexistent for the CGM 
world.

 

I pointed out the 
problems with the specification, and the options for creating a valid S1000D 
Profile.

 

To align their work 
with our recent efforts, I presented an overview over

- cascading CGM 
profiles

- WebCGM XML 
Companion File Architecture

- WebCGM DOM & 
Event Model

 

First 
reactions:

- It was 
acknowledged that there are problems with S1000D in its current 
form

- There seemed to be 
an agreement that S1000D needs to be changed

- I recognized the 
intention to collaborate with CGM Open to migrate to the

  new 
technologies wherever possible

 

I observed quite a 
bit of enthusiasm among the attendees regarding the latest developments around 
CGM. All this is important to the members of this group.

 

Questions & 
Action Items

- EPWG needs to 
check on how they can use our Companion File DTD to avoid having to 

  change their 
data model

- Peter Zimmermann 
and I will meet in the near future to discuss the requirements, 
the

  current 
status, and possible solutions in more detail to provide them with enough 
knowledge

  to start work 
on this

- EPWG members 
showed interest in the current documents, especially the 
DTDs.

  I don't see a 
problem giving them the DTDs, because we definitely need feedback on them 
asap.

- Peter was 
interested in how we plan to test companion files. He suggested that Metacheck 
should

  be enhanced 
to test the basic aspects of the XML file (structure, broken references 
etc).

 

I attach the slides 
that I used for my presentation.

 

Best 
regards,

Dieter

 

S1000D and CGM 040721.ppt