All,
To avoid the risk of potential misunderstandings stated in
[2] of my previous email, we would like to propose amendments to the annotations.
Revised annotations should be without the word ‘Exclude’,
as follows:
<xsd:element name="specialDividends"
type="xsd:boolean"
minOccurs="0">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>Special Dividends and Memorial Dividends.</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="materialDividend"
type="xsd:boolean"
minOccurs="0">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>Material Non-Cash Dividends.</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation>
</xsd:element>
In this way:
- it is intuitively
obvious to the user / implementer that a Boolean ‘true’ means ‘Applicable’,
without referring to the wording.
- it would be more
flexible than a negative representation, should the elements be re-used with
different wordings in the future.
We believe this is agreeable but please confirm in the next
working group call.
Best Regards,
Takeo
From: Takeo Asakura
Sent: 01 July 2008 17:09
To: 'eqdwg@xxxxxxxx'
Subject: FpML EQD - A question
regarding Japanese Dividend Proposal
All,
·
I am a bit puzzled regarding [1] below.
·
[2] below is something we might discuss in the WG
after clarifying [1].
·
I would be grateful if someone (-who had requested or
implemented, perhaps) could clarify [1] below, before the next WG so that we
are ready to discuss [2], if possible.
[1] I have noticed the 4-4 TR-1
(build 7) has elements <excludeSpecialDividends> and
<nonCashDividend>, and it seems to me that they are for the same purpose
as what <specialDividends> and <materialDividend> of our Japanese
Dividend proposal are for. The build 7 date is 9th June, while our
proposal was sent on the 16th and it was not discussed until later in the week,
so it does not look like a case of our proposal reflected with different
naming. Is the above assumption correct (-is our proposal a duplicated one)?
[2] Our proposal also includes
annotations for the two elements as [Exclude
Special Dividends and Memorial Dividends] and [Exclude Material Non-Cash Dividends]
respectively. Since they are Boolean (as opposed to passing ‘Not
Applicable’), the annotations together with the non-negative tag name
might make it ambiguous as to whether ‘true’ means applicable or
excluded. This applies to <nonCashDividend> as well, and in this sense
<excludeSpecialDividends> is clearer. Alternatively, both the tag names
and the annotations can be made positive to mean that ‘true’
signifies inclusion of the respective dividends.
Best regards,
Takeo