#178 OASIS conformance clarity

[Rob Bodington]

The Conformance section should have more clearer Conformance Clause(s)

(see http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCHandbook/ConformanceGuidelines.html):

• In 2.1: what constitutes an "implementation" should be more clearly defined.

Some representation of the PLCS PSM appears to be the target implementation here,

and that representation should be given a name - e.g. a "PSM instance", or "PSM data exchange file"?

• Conformance rule: should I infer neither the EXPRESS or SysML but only the

derived XML schema is necessary to validate an implementation?

Does the sentence "The following models are provided for explanatory purposes" mean that these models

are NOT normative i.e. any form of representations of these (models) are NOT conformance targets? should be clarified.

Also in last paragraph of 2.1, appears Schematron: now is it sufficient for an implementation to validate

against the XML schema above, or should it also satisfy Schematron rules? Not clearly stated.

• In 2.2: "implementations shall conform to them (to OWL ontologies)": can you be more specific where such ontologies are supposed / required to be used in the implementation?

• in 2.3: COnforming to Templates: isn't that implied by validating against the XML schema? Or is there more precise and additional requirements? Is there a minimal set of Templates that must always be present? Or groups of templates that must always be used together?

[plcs-ccb-admin]

CCB call 2013-04-29
Accepted

[Rob Bodington]

/cvsroot/plcslib/plcslib/xsl/generate_publication/oasis_cover.xsl,v <-- oasis_cover.xsl
new revision: 1.35; previous revision: 1.34

[Rob Bodington]

/cvsroot/plcslib/plcslib/xsl/generate_publication/oasis_cover.xsl,v <-- oasis_cover.xsl
new revision: 1.36; previous revision: 1.35