[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-12) create a data type for property names

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create a data type for property names
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                 Key: ODATA-12
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-12
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: OData CSDL v1.0
            Reporter: Andrew Eisenberg
            Assignee: Michael Pizzo
            Priority: Minor


The Edm.String data type can be used to define a type annotation property when the property will hold the name of some other property. A more specific data type could be added to OData for this purpose.

In the OData Extension for Temporal Data we suggested this annotation:

<TypeAnnotation Term="Temporal.ApplicationPeriod">
   <PropertyValue Name="StartPeriod" String="bus_start" />
   <PropertyValue Name="EndPeriod" String="bus_end" />
</TypeAnnotation>

Instead of declaring StartPeriod and EndPeriod to be of type String, we could declare them to be of type PropertyName.


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