Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 à 17:08 +0100, Dave Pawson a écrit : > On 12/09/05, Eric van der Vlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Now, the issue has reappeared in DSDL 5 Data Type Library Language - > > DTLL which current Working Draft is Jeni Tennison's proposal > > http://dsdl.org/0546.htm. > > > > Its purpose and principles are different, but that should still be easy > > enough to define this kind of datatypes. > > > > If you're interested, stay posted or better, feel free to join the DSDL > > project! > > Two questions please Eric. > > 1. Has anyone posted a couple of examples of adding their own data type > library? > I'd like to add it to the faq, if not actually use it.
I don't think so... Examples that are often mentioned and come to my mind are things such as this value/unit example, dates from the Gregorian calendar in other formats than ISO (English or French for instance); dates from non Gregorian calendars (Japanese for instance), decimal numbers with other decimal delimiter than the ".", complex numbers, ... > 2. You keep suggesting joining the DSDL project; > Is there a public mailing list, Yes, the dsdl-comment mailing list (see http://dsdl.org/). > since > AFAIK, we'd need to be Oasis members to joing the group? That's only one of many other possibilities... DSDL is an ISO project, or more exactly an ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 1 (International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Committee Joint Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee 34 Working Group 1) project. The best way to be part of this project is to represent your country and this is done through your local standard body. If you're lucky enough to represent your country, you can become part of the project and you can also take part to the votes. Now, it happens that some individuals are interested by a project (and interesting for the project) and that they cannot be designated to represent their countries (in my case for instance, the standards boby in my country doesn't participate to ISO projects unless they find an industrial to sponsor their participation and since they are expensive to sponsor I cannot afford to be this sponsor...). In that cases, there are "backdoors" to participate to the project: the SGML users' group and OASIS are considered SC34 "liaisons" and their members can attend to the meetings, participate to the projects but they do not vote. Personally, I am part of the DSDL project through the ISUG. Finally, the ISO DSDL project has a private mailing list with public mail archives, dsdl-discuss, that is open to all the project members (from ISO, ISUG or OASIS) and to invited experts that can be external to these organization. That leaves, in addition to using the dsdl-comment mailing list, many opportunities to join the project and/or the dsdl-discuss mailing list! Eric > regards > -- Le premier annuaire des apiculteurs 100% XML! http://apiculteurs.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/2U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rng-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
