My updates

This draft, based on Ron's latest draft
includes the diagram changes we talked about on today's call, plus a couple
of other ones Frank identified in his draft. 

It also includes the changes for:

4.1.4 - I don't think this is language-independent,
but then again, it is 

difficult to explain in a non-language-dependent way

4.1.12 - The isNull() and setNull() methods; when did we introduce those?

I can't remember, it could be me

4.3.7 - What happened to getChangedObjects()? What about getOldValue()?

6.1 - The conversion rules between String and List are missing, but I 

assume they are the same in every language (part of the reason they were

modeled after XMLSchema)

7.5.2 - The sentence ". In the case where Date and java.lang.String
are 

insufficient, sdox:dataType can be used to override the datatype to one

with a custom implementation class." was left out. Was that intentional?

8.1 - If we disregard the "SDO Java types", then the two cases
in which 

"sdo:dataType" needs to be used are "Date" and "Character";
maybe this 

warrants a new issue to be opened, but I think it's fairly clear

12 - Again, I think conversions of List to String should be kept because

they are not Java-specific; there are plenty of references to Lists 

throughout the core spec

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.

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