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Subject: Re: [emergency] Comment #30: Suggested Language
Good points, and I like your suggested language better. And per Rex's
subsequent email on the topic
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200312/msg00011.html) I
too think it would be wise to see if anyone else has thoughts.
Allen
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:41, Art Botterell wrote:
> A couple of notes on this one:
>
> 1) Having had more time to reflect, I think there might be legitimate
> instances of an <alert> of type Alert with no included <info>...
> especially if the scope is Restricted or Private. Anyway, making the
> presence of an <info> block mandatory when the value of <msgType> is
> "Alert" would complicate both the schema and any strict
> implementation thereof. So I'm thinking it might be more appropriate
> to make this a SHOULD (or even a "normally SHOULD").
>
> 2) It seems this could be expressed more simply in the affirmative by
> saying something like: "Under most circumstances CAP messages with a
> <msgType> value of "Alert" SHOULD include at least one <info>
> element."
>
> - Art
>
>
>
>
> At 10:18 AM -0500 12/1/03, emtc@nc.rr.com wrote:
> >I would suggest we add the following last line to Section 1.3. The complete
> >paragraph would read...
> >
> >1.3 Structure of the CAP Alert Message
> >Each CAP Alert Message consists of an <alert> segment, which may contain one
> >or more <info> segments, each of which may include one or more <area>
> >segments (see the document object model diagram in section 3.1, below). While
> >the CAP XML Schema Definition (XSD) allows for a valid message to only
> >include <alert>, <identifier>, <sender>, <sent>, <status>, and <msgType>,
> >this type of message MUST only be used for message acknowledgements,
> >cancellations, or other system functions.
> >
>
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R. Allen Wyke
Chair, OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
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