SMILE and XMILE

Hi Everyone,

    

    Because we have parallel discussions in this email forum and on
    SDForum from time to time I will be copying content between the two.
    We can talk about the best way to do this during tomorrow's call. I
    will bring this thread from SDForum across intact, so we can see how
    it looks (it is the longest thread). There will be several messages,
    but I will start with the initial notes I made, already on record in
    a file attachment.

    

    
    

      SMILE
          and XMILE
      
by Robert
            Eberlein » Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:18 pm 

      
As much as I admire Jim Hines and his
        wonderful penchant for coming up with words intended to make us
        feel better, I do think we should stop using SMILE. XMILE is the
        standard and it encompasses both the equations and the display.
        I do think it makes sense to separate out the computational
        portion of the model structure from the display information. I
        also think the computational portion deserves substantial
        discussion before the Schema implementation is described.

        

        Given that I would suggest the following layout (though it may
        be that the standards for standards writing dictate something
        else):

        

        1. Short background as is

        2. Container Schema (version codes, producer...)

        3. Model equation structure

        4. Model equation schema

        5. Display and widget structure

        6. Display and widget schema