Karl, Michel Karl Czajkowski wrote:
On Mar 07, Michel Drescher loaded a tape reading:
1) Argument list handling in jsdl:Application Basically, the modeling of command line arguments in a whole string is ... cumbersome? I know, it works, but it looks ugly.
Michel, I think the word you were looking for was 'simple.' ;-)
Instead, I'd like to propose the following (in PseudoCode): <Application ... > ... <Arguments> <Arg order:xsd:positiveInteger>xsd:String</Arg> </Arguments>* ... </Application> Every content in the jsdl:Arg element would be converted to quoted strings if it contains whitespaces.
I think you mean to have the "*" on the Argument element, not on the Arguments envelope, e.g.
<Arguments> <Argument>xsd:string</Argument>* ... </Arguments>?
I leave the "?" if Arguments is optional...
The order attribute is unnecessary. The XML infoset model preserves "document order" for child elements, partly I think as this is critical to a lot of mixed-content approaches from SGML and HTML...
Good. I was going to object to the 'order' attribute. (For me that's ugly.) This would be ok.
3) Storage/bandwidth units At the moment, we use a mixed set of units. SI defines two distinct sets of units: One based on 10, and one based on 2 (adopted by the IEC), having the 10 based units the normal prefix (like K, M, G, T, P and E) and the 2 based units the prefixes Ki, Mi(!), Gi, Ti, Pi and Ei. I propose to use the SI units. For JSDL2, I propose to switch to an OID based system for these kind of units.
I agree. To address your "Mi(!)" comment, the "i" is short for "bInary", e.g. "Ki" means "Kilo-binary" and "Mi" means "Mega-binary". It has been proposed that "MiB" would be pronounced "mebi bytes" as opposed to "maybe bites" or "Men in Black" :-)
I could go for this too. (The UR-WG already did something like this, I believe.) -- Andreas Savva Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd