[tmcl-wg] Doubts in TMCL Requirements

[Robert Barta]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:20:52PM +0000, Giovani Librelotto wrote:
> U1. Valid topic names
> ---------------------
> a. Topic of type T must have a specified number of explicit names
> (cardinality). 
> Example: Topic of type person must have two explicit names, i. e., one is a
> nickname and the other is the full name.
> 
> ==> Will TMCL specify a number of names, the content of baseNameString, or
> both?

I would assume it means that in this requirement only the numbers
are restrict, not the specific values. But, saying this, there also
could be a requirement on the content of the basename (or some other
text in the TM) as well:

"All topic basenames must be of the form

   /[\w ]+ \(\w+\)/

and must not exceed the length of 30 characters. The latter
maybe, because the basename is used as title of a slide in a
slide show and there is only a limited space.

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