RE: Changes to xNL and xCIL

[Ram Kumar <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

Your point taken. The decision we have to make regarding xNAL is whether
xNAL will only support a person or an organisation as a customer,
or, whether it will support any other species that has a name associated
with an address. Your advise please. Looks like the best thing is
to stick to person or organisation.

Ram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David RR Webber - XMLGlobal [mailto:Gnosis_@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Friday, 5 October 2001 11:59 PM
> To: Ram Kumar
> Cc: CIQ TC (E-mail)
> Subject: re: Changes to xNL and xCIL
> 
> 
> Message text written by Ram Kumar
> >A customer is a customer whether it is a dog or human or a 
> company. We
> have
> to cater for all types
> of customer name and address data if we claim that xNAL and 
> xCIL represents
> global customer data.
> I therefore, spent about 10 minutes to fix the xNAL and xCIL 
> to cater for
> this data set.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Ram<
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Ram,
> 
> This is a little off the path.  I think just adding one attribute is a
> cheap fix,
> no problem with that.
> 
> However some years back I was involved in a Genome Primate 
> database project for Duke University.
> 
> My 2cents is there is a shed load of other stuff - like species info' 
> and who sired who, that people in this area ALSO want to store.
> 
> I think we should not go down that slippery slope.  People wanting
> to extend our <name> <address> stuff should <include> <species>
> and <hereditary> pieces from elsewhere.
> 
> DW.