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Comment LC-2174

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Commenter: FABLET Youenn <Youenn.Fablet@crf.canon.fr>

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[Free text description]Document as a wholeEfficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 /**/ code... Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 W3C Working Draft 28 July 2008 Abstract Status of this Document Table of Contents Appendices 1. Introduction [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   1.1 History and Design 1.2 Notational Conventions and Terminology [Definition:]   2. Design Principles 3. Basic Concepts 4. EXI Streams [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   4. EXI Streams [Definition:]  An EXI stream is an EXI heade... 4. EXI Streams [Definition:]  An EXI stream is an EXI heade... name prefix local-element-ns public qname system text uri value 5. EXI Header [Definition:]   5.1 EXI Cookie [Definition:]   5.2 Distinguishing Bits [Definition:]   5.3 EXI Format Version [Definition:]   Example 5-1. EXI Format Version Examples 5.4 EXI Options [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   6. Encoding EXI Streams [Definition:]   6.1 Determining Event Codes Example 6-1. Example productions with event codes 6.2 Representing Event Codes Example 6-2. Example event code encoding 6.3 Fidelity Options Preserve.prefixes Preserve.lexicalValues 7. Representing Event Content [Definition:]   7. Representing Event Content The content of each event in... 7. Representing Event Content The content of each event in... 7.1 Built-in EXI Datatype Representations 7.1.1 Binary 7.1.2 Boolean 7.1.3 Decimal 7.1.4 Float 7.1.5 Integer 7.1.6 Unsigned Integer Example 7-1. Example algorithm for decoding an Unsigned Inte... 7.1.7 QName 7.1.8 Date-Time 7.1.9 n-bit Unsigned Integer 7.1.10 String 7.1.10.1 Restricted Character Sets 7.1.11 List 7.2 Enumerations 7.3 String Table 7.3.1 String Table Partitions [Definition:]   7.3.2 Partitions Optimized for Frequent use of Compact Identifiers 7.3.3 Partitions Optimized for Frequent use of String Literals 7.4 Datatype Representation Map [Definition:]   Example 7-2. datatypeRepresentationMap indicating all Decima... Example 7-3. datatypeRepresentationMap illustrating a user-d... 8. EXI Grammars 8.1 Grammar Notation 8.1.1 Fixed Event Codes Example 8-1. Example productions with fixed event codes 8.1.2 Variable Event Codes Example 8-2. Example productions that use macro non-terminal... Example 8-3. Example non-terminal macros and its productions... Example 8-4. Expanded productions equivalent to the producti... 8.2 Grammar Event Codes Example 8-5. Example productions with event codes 8.3 Pruning Unneeded Productions Example 8-6. Example productions with full fidelity Example 8-7. Example productions after pruning 8.4 Built-in XML Grammars 8.4.1 Built-in Document Grammar 8.4.2 Built-in Fragment Grammar 8.4.3 Built-in Element Grammar [Definition:]   8.5 Schema-informed Grammars 8.5.1 Schema-informed Document Grammar 8.5.2 Schema-informed Fragment Grammar 8.5.3 Schema-informed Element Fragment Grammar 8.5.4 Schema-informed Element and Type Grammars [Definition:]   [Definition:]   8.5.4.1 EXI Proto-Grammars 8.5.4.1.1 Grammar Concatenation Operator 8.5.4.1.2 Element Grammars 8.5.4.1.3 Type Grammars 8.5.4.1.3.1 SimpleType Grammars 8.5.4.1.3.2 Complex Type Grammars 8.5.4.1.3.3 Complex Ur-Type Grammar 8.5.4.1.4 Attribute Uses 8.5.4.1.5 Particles 8.5.4.1.6 Element Terms 8.5.4.1.7 Wildcard Terms 8.5.4.1.8 Model Group Terms 8.5.4.1.8.1 Sequence Model Groups 8.5.4.1.8.2 Choice Model Groups 8.5.4.1.8.3 All Model Groups 8.5.4.2 EXI Normalized Grammars 8.5.4.2.1 Eliminating Productions with no Terminal Symbol 8.5.4.2.2 Eliminating Duplicate Terminal Symbols 8.5.4.3 Event Code Assignment 8.5.4.4 Undeclared Productions 8.5.4.4.1 Adding Productions when Strict is False Like an element, an attribute may occur in a schema-invalid... 8.5.4.4.2 Adding Productions when Strict is True 9. EXI Compression 9.1 Blocks 9.2 Channels 9.2.1 Structure Channel 9.2.2 Value Channels 9.3 Compressed Streams 10. Conformance 10.1 EXI Stream Conformance [Definition:]   [Definition:]   [Definition:]   10.2 EXI Processor Conformance A References A.1 Normative References IETF RFC 1951 IETF RFC 2119 ISO/IEC 10646 Unicode Database XML 1.0 XML Information Set XML Schema Structures XML Schema Datatypes A.2 Other References Efficient XML EXI Measurements Note EXI Primer EXI Evaluation Greibach Normal Form Huffman Coding ISO/IEC 19757-2:2003 SOAP 1.2 XBC Measurement Methodologies XBC Use Cases XBC Properties B Infoset Mapping B.1 Document Information Item B.2 Element Information Items B.3 Attribute Information Item B.4 Processing Instruction Information Item B.5 Unexpanded Entity Reference Information item B.6 Character Information item B.7 Comment Information item B.8 Document Type Declaration Information item B.9 Unparsed Entity Information Item B.10 Notation Information Item B.11 Namespace Information Item C XML Schema for EXI Options Header D Initial Entries in String Table Partitions D.1 Initial Entries in Uri Partition D.2 Initial Entries in Prefix Partitions D.3 Initial Entries in Local-Name Partitions E Deriving Character Sets from XML Schema Regular Expressions E Deriving Character Sets from XML Schema Regular Expressio... F Example Encoding (Non-Normative) G Schema-informed Grammar Examples (Non-Normative) Example G-1. Example XML Schema fragment G.1 Proto-Grammar Examples   Term_description   Term_description 0 :...   Term_description   Term_description 0 :...   Term_description   Term_description 0 :...   Particle_description   Term_description ...   Particle_quantity   Term_quantity 0 :...   Particle_quantity   Term_quantity 0 :...   Term_sequence   Term_description0 :...   Particle_sequence   Term_description0,0...   Use_sku   Use_sku 0 : AT("sku") Use_...   Use_sku   Use_sku 0 : AT("sku") Use_...   ProtoG_ProductElement   Use_color 0 :...   ProtoG_OrderElement   Term_prod... G.2 Normalized Grammar Examples   NormG_ProductElement Event Code Use_col...   NormG_ProductElement Event Code Use_col... G.3 Complete Grammar Examples   CompleteG_ProductElement Event Code Use...   CompleteG_ProductElement Event Code Use... H Recent Specification Changes (Non-Normative) H.1 Changes from Third Public Working Draft H.2 Changes from Second Public Working Draft H.3 Changes from First Public Working Draft I Acknowledgements (Non-Normative)
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3) DataTypeRepresentationType question
I would like a confirmation of the current DataTypeRepresentationType behaviour.
Let's have a schema with the following attribute definition:
<xs:attribute name="test" type="xs:string"/>
In that case, the only way to change the encoding for @test1 values with the DataTypRepresentationType feature
is to redefine xs:string which may have great impact.
If we only want to change the @test values with the DataTypRepresentationType feature, we would need to
change the schema as follow:
<xs:simpleType name="mystring">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string"/>
</xs:simpleType>
<xs:attribute name="test" type="mystring"/>
DataTypeRepresentationType could then be used to redefine mystring.
Is it correct?
If so, the interoperability will generally be lost, since interoperable DataTypeRepresentationType use is currently limited to XML Schema part 2 predefined types redefinition (end of section 7.4).
What about extending that behaviour to all simple types that have been gathered by consuming the schema in use?
Is there any rationale behind that specific constraint?

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Resolution: Any named simple types can be used as the names of the first elements in datatype representation maps, as long as they are defined in the schema. So, "mystring" type defined in your example schema snippet can be used in datatype representation maps, in no less interoperable manner than built-in xsd datatypes can be used. The note given at the end of section 7.4 is about the mechanism of sharing user-defined datatype representation, not about the types. Schemas are supposed to be shared among the parties before exchanging documents, so the types in the schemas are shared knowledge at that point as xsd built-in types also are. The note only warns that extra caution should be paid before sending documents that use user-defined datatype representation to make sure the recipient knows how to decode the value that was encoded using that custom representation. We plan to improve some language there to make it clear that it is about user-defined datatype representations.

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