Comments on the Public Review of UOML Part 1 v1.0 Errata

Below are my comments to the errata document: http://docs.oasis-open.org/uoml-x/v1.0/errata/cd/uoml-part1-v1.0-errata.pdf

 

Martin.

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According to the TC Process

“"Errata" means
a set of changes or proposed changes to a specification that are not
Substantive Changes.”

and

“"Substantive
Change" is a change to a specification that would require
a compliant application or implementation to be modified or rewritten in order
to remain compliant.”

 

Given this definition I do not understand how the TC
considers the following to be non-substantive changes:

 

Changes labelled 50, 51, 53, 58,  67, 68, 78: These
changes do not alter the xsd, but add new constraints to permissible values of
properties e.g. change page width from a float to a positive float. Thus
documents written to the current OASIS Standard may now be invalid with these
changes if they use values outside those defined in the errata. 

 

Change labelled 83: This is a breaking xsd change. Documents
written to the current OASIS Standard may now be invalid with this change. 

 

Change labelled 86: The addition of a RELAX-NG
representation of the xsd schema is a new feature that was not in the OASIS
Standard.