Hello, In the OSLC-CM V2, there are three properties of a change request resource whose description contains some variation of the following: "SHOULD include only content that is valid inside an XHTML <div> element." The three properties are oslc:shortTitle, dcterms:description, and dcterms:title. I can understand what SHOULD means from an OSLC-CM provider point of view when returning the resource as the result of a GET or query. What isn't clear to me is how this SHOULD statement is applied to pre-filling delegated change request creation dialogs. What happens in the case where the content is not valid XHTML? I think that non-XHTML content should be supported since it doesn't say "MUST" in the spec but I'd like to hear from others.
In my testing, I've found that Rational's tools are inconsistent in their implementation of this on the provider side. I'd like to get this clarified in the spec so I can submit defects to get all of our tools behaving consistently. Regards, Brian Steele RM Architect & Dev Manager Rational Software Phone: 1-714-327-7770 E-mail: [email protected] 1540 Scenic Ave Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1408 United States
