Re: [Ltru] Confirmation question about registry fields

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:29:59PM +0900,
 Felix Sasaki <fsasaki at w3.org> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> I am working on an XML version of the registry

That will be the third one <http://www.langtag.net/registries.html> 
and still no YAML or JSON version :-)

> with the purpose of making it maller in terms of file size.

I would prefer gzip (or a different and more compact format, like the
two mentioned above).

> My question is whether the only fields which may appear more than
> once (and hence must be represented as elements) are "description"
> and "prefix".

No, there is Comments, too. 3.1.2:

>   Field-names MUST occur no more than once per record, with the
>   exception of the 'Description', 'Comments', and sometimes the
>   'Prefix' field.

Also, it seems to contradict the spirit of 3.1.2:

>   Future versions of this document might add additional fields to
>   the registry; implementations SHOULD ignore fields found in the
>   registry that are not defined in this document.

While it is not explicit, it may indicate that a "once only" field
could become a "several occurrences" field later.


field MUST appear only once.
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