On Thu, 12 May 2005, Phil Barker wrote:
> Pierre Gorissen wrote:
>> Maybe someone closer involved in this can clarify the news on the LTSO
>> website (http://www.cen-ltso.net/Users/main.aspx?noti=348&Lang=eng)
>> stating that P1484.12.3 was approved as a new standard by the IEEE-SA
>> Standards Board on 10 May 2005.
>>
>> Does that mean we now finally have an official XML binding for the LOM?
>
> Yes. (pauses for cheers to die down)
Gad... it must be a sad life in your offices :-(
> As with the data model, the official published version will be a
> reformatting of the version approved by ballot, which is IEEE
> P1484.12.3/D8, Draft Standard... (currently) available from
> http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/materials.html
Good grief... it never ceases to amaze me how good IEEE are at hiding
stuff behind long strings of numbers and letters! Life's too short for us
all to wade thru this stuff! The interesting questions (and answers are)
are
- do we need to change the current LOM namespace URI? If so, to what?
Yes, http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/LOM
- are there new XML schemas available (i.e. one or more .xsd files)? If
so, where?
Yes, http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/downloads/LOM/lomv1.0/xsd/
- are existing valid LOM instances likely to remain valid?
Dunno! But
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/publications/rdn-ltsn/ap/new-lom-example.xml
does validate OK against lomLoose.xsd (without changing anything other
than the namespace URI and the schema location).
http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv?docAddrs=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rdn.ac.uk%2Fpublications%2Frdn-ltsn/ap%2Fnew-lom-example.xml&warnings=on&keepGoing=on&style=xsl
Andy
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