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Ira, great work. Thanks for forging ahead on this. I feel we at least need to test consensus on your rationale for not using XML encoding. Especially the part that says web services is not feasible for CE devices. Aren't they putting web services in light switches these days? ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis Chairman - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group http://www.pwg.org IBM Printing Systems http://www.ibm.com/printers 303-924-5337 ---------------------------------------------- <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>"McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com> Sent by: owner-pwg@pwg.org 05/10/2004 12:07 PM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td valign=top>"'pwg@pwg.org'" <pwg@pwg.org> <tr> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td valign=top>"'Nagasaka Fumio'" <Nagasaka.Fumio@exc.epson.co.jp> <tr> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td valign=top>PWG> Posted draft PWG Simple Job Ticket [10 May 2004]</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Hi folks,                                           Monday (10 May 2004) [For review at the next PWG face-to-face meeting in Vancouver, BC, during the Consumer Electronice BOF on Thursday (27 May 2004)] I have just posted an initial draft of a non-XML, string-encoded PWG Simple Job Ticket at:    ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/ce/tb-cesjt10-20040510.htm Please read the SJT/1.0 example in Appendix D (see below) and the brief ABNF in Appendix C before reading the body of this document. Please send comments to the 'pwg@pwg.org' mailing list. Cheers, - Ira Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High North Inc PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839 phone: +1-906-494-2434 email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com [PS - Jerry - I cut and pasted the cover page style and boilerplate from Harry's most recent PWG Process 2.0 draft - please point out any errors - the boldface didn't cut and paste in titles such as 'About IEEE' and the PWG graphic isn't there - those will come in an MS Word-based draft] [PPS - I created a subdirectory 'ce' under '/pub/pwg/BOFs' for CE stuff] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [example SJT/1.0 JobTicket instance, excerpted from Appendix D] .pwg:JobTicket              -- begin job ticket 101="sjt10"                 -- type and version 155="201,252"               -- media and finishings on job mandatory 156="vnd,http://example.com/sjt-namespace.txt" -- Vendor ABNF .pwg:Job                    -- begin job 201="iso_a4_210x297mm"      -- ISO A4 letter 251=3                       -- 3 copies of this job 252="4,6"                   -- staple and cover finishings on job vnd:251=50                  -- vendor extension 'JobZoom' .pwg:Document               -- begin document 301=202                     -- JPEG document format 302="http://example.com/pictures/778.jpg" -- document URI 355="Bermuda Sunset"        -- document name vnd:351=3                   -- vendor extension 'DocumentSharpening' ./pwg:Document              -- end document ./pwg:Job                   -- end job ./pwg:JobTicket             -- end job ticket ------------------------------------------------------------------------ </tt>