[Pkg-isocodes-devel] iso-codes 2.2-1: Please update the PO translation for the package iso-codes

[Tobias Toedter]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 13:10:19 Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Can we avoid using the 3.0 version number? I would like to reserve the
> major version number
> to signify incompatible changes (that require upgrade/rewrite of iso-
> codes reading software).
> I'd prefer to see v2.111 than v120.1

Well, the version has not been released yet, so it's not too late. However, I 
did increase the major version, because in my opinion, we do have an 
incompatible change in our DTD / XML file for ISO 4217.

Previously, the DTD said that the attribute "numeric_code" was #REQUIRED. In 
the XML data, the entries for UIC-Franc and Gold-Franc did not contain a 
numeric entry for those attributes, but three spaces "   " instead, which is 
certainly not correct. In the only "official" source[1] I have access to, the 
numeric value for those entries is specified as "Nil", which I would not 
regard as empty value, but as a special value like NULL in SQL. Therefore, 
I've changed the DTD to make the attribute numeric_code #IMPLIED, so that it 
can be missing. Afterwards, I removed the attributes from UIC-Franc and 
Gold-Franc. To me, this seems to be incompatible, because programs using the 
XML file can no longer rely on numeric_code being always present.

If we want to avoid version 3.0 at all, our option would be to change the DTD 
back to #REQUIRED and either use the word "Nil" as value for the attribute or 
use an empty string "".

Originally, this has been reported as bug #310826 on Alioth.

[1]
<http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/currency_codes/currency_codes_list-1.htm>

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Toedter   | Don't you just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
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