Re: [ubl-cmsc] Hierarchical Context Values

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>]

Matthew Gertner wrote:
> 
> 5) How do we determine how hierarchical context driver values
> are matched? For example, when does "France" match "Europe" (since Europe
> contains France) and when does it match only "France" exactly? The
> Vienna document uses the "Apply" attribute for this purpose.


This is one that I'v never understood.

Curently the assumption is that if the value of "apply" is "hierarchical", and
the context is France, and the taxonomy given makes France part of Europe,
some magic will happen and whatever needs to apply to Europe will take effect
also. I think this is broken.

I would much prefer that the rules explicitly present the hierarchy in a,
well, hierarchical fashion (that is rules for Europe containing rules for 
France), or in an ordered fashion, that is a rule for Europe with order="1",
and an rule for France with order="2" for instance. Magic makes me uncomfortable
(except in Harry Potter books, of course ;-)


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