[ubl] Re: [ubl-comment] Distribution of Naming and Design Rulesposition papers

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the comments.  I think the 1.3.3 rewrite doesn't get at our 
intent, since we did intend to give the LC group the latitude to add a 
qualifier even in cases of singleton properties, where a "naked" 
property term would be confusing or misleading to people looking at 
the instance.  But we'll certainly discuss it, and will seek the 
opinion of the LC people as well.

Regarding 1.3.5, we're open to additional exceptions that are easy to 
understand/implement and make for more natural names.  I think we were 
hesitant to completely elide more than one representation term (so 
that there would be a clear default), but given the other truncations 
we're already doing, perhaps this isn't so much of a problem -- i.e., 
the dictionary entries for everything are still crystal clear.  We'll 
discuss this one as well, and I believe Tim McGrath is collecting a 
lot of good comments on the Order schema this week that might affect 
our direction on this as well.

Best,

	Eve

Martin Bryan wrote:

> Eve
> 
> Re Arofan's tag spec draft, which includes the sentence in 1.3.3:
> 
> The names of intermediate elements MUST contain the Property Term describing
> the element and MAY be preceded by an appropriate Qualifier term as
> necessary to create semantic clarity at that level. The Object Class MAY be
> used as a qualifier.
> 
> I would suggest that this should read:
> 
> The names of intermediate elements MUST contain the Property Term describing
> the element which MUST followed by an  appropriate Qualifier term whenever
> the same Property Term is used for more than one element. The Object Class
> MAY be used as a qualifier in front of the Property Term.
> 
> In 1.3.5 I would suggest that the rule be relaxed so that those elements
> whose Representation Typeis a name do not need to have Name appended to
> their element names.
> 
> Martin Bryan

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