[X3D-Public] IMPORT in XML encoding: exportedDEF or importedDEF?

Michalis Kamburelis michalis.kambi at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 20:19:09 PDT 2010


Hi,

X3D XML encoding specification says (at "4.3.12 IMPORT/EXPORT statement
syntax") that IMPORT element has "exportedDEF" attribute. See
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/ISO-IEC-19776-1.2-X3DEncodings-XML/Part01/concepts.html#IMPORT_EXPORTStatementSyntax


However, all xsd schemas (for 3.0, 3.1, 3.2) say the attribute is called
"importedDEF". See e.g. http://www.web3d.org/specifications/x3d-3.2.xsd

Also the ImportExportSyntax.x3d example uses "importedDEF". See
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/development/ImportExportSyntax.x3d
(from
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/development/_pages/page28.html
).

Looking at the
http://www.web3d.org/specifications/x3d-dtd-changelog.txt, I see a
change (brutzman 25-26 January 2003) marked with

  Renamed IMPORT label exportedDEF as importedDEF for semantic consistency.

So I guess that "importedDEF" is the correct name. So xsd and
ImportExportSyntax.x3d are right, and the XML encoding spec should be fixed?

If no comments, I'll submit to
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/spec_feedback/

Michalis



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