[sc34wg3] Question on TNC / Montreal minutes

[Mason, James David (MXM)]

If we want this commented on by the NBs, we need to tell the SC34
Secretariat.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lars Marius Garshol [SMTP:larsga@garshol.priv.no]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:53 AM
> To:	sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
> Subject:	Re: [sc34wg3] Question on TNC / Montreal minutes
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> * Nikita Ogievetsky
> |
> | Actually the choice was between
> | 1) on/off "merge" attribute
> | and
> | 2)introduction of  typed  <label> elements (typed like occurrences =
with
> | <instanceOf>).
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> | The former was chosen, although I long hoped for the latter.
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> We are now going to have comments from the various national bodies on
> the decisions made in Montr=E9al and the existing drafts. If you have
> opinions please either send them in through your national body, or if
> that is difficult, write them up in a document and post them publicly
> (to this list, to your own web server, or whatever).=20
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> Comments are very much wanted, and not necessarily only from the
> people who have direct access to the official process.
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> | Now, if 2) choice were selected you would have:
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> | <topic id=3D"t1">
> |    <baseName>
> |       <baseNameString>Mama Cass</baseNameString>
> |   </baseName>
> | </topic>
> | <topic id=3D"t6">
> |   <label>
> |       <instanceOf><topicRef =
xlink:href=3D"#possible-name"/></instanceOf>
> |       <labelString>Mama Cass</labelString>
> |  </label>
> | </topic>
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> | This case is pretty clear, right?
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> I think so, although this was not what I had in mind. What I was
> thinking was more like this:
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> <topic id=3D"t6">
>   <baseName>
>       <label>Mama Cass</label>
>  </baseName>
> </topic>
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> which is a less intrusive change to the syntax.
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> <instanceOf> on base names has now been made a separate issue from =
the
> TNC, but it still needs to be settled.
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> | (<labelString> I had invented just now and for the purpose of this
> | example only)
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> Yep. :)
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