Re: [ubl-lcsc] Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Removing use of "-" in element andtype names

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

Title:

does it?  i scanned 1.90 and could only find this...

[C20] and [B21] The Dictionary Entry Name shall not use non-letter characters
unless required by language

The OED says the word is "E-mail", so language requires a hyphen.

Moreover, the CCTS  then goes on to state that ...

[B26] ... Qualifier Terms shall be separated from their associated Object
Class or Property Term by an underscore (_) followed by a space to separate
each qualifier...

 - which means Dictionary Entry Names (for BIEs) can contain "_" as well
as "." and " ".  i would say these are all non-letter characters. (and break
rules C20 and B21)

My original comment stands, Dictionary Entry Names may contain non-letter
characters (e.g. hyphens).  I don't see this as a problem.  They already
conatin other non-letter characters such as underscore, period/full stop
and spaces.


CRAWFORD, Mark wrote:
>  
>
> 	On Fri, 16 May 2003, Tim McGrath wrote: 
>
> 	>>... 
> 	>>So, given this all happens, what end up with is UBLNames that have no 
> 	>>punctuation (only boring a-Z) BUT Dictionary Entry Names (and their 
> 	>>composite parts) that may have things like "-".  Hopefully, this is good 
> 	>>enough for Java and Perl ;-) 
>
> 	We should never have dictionary entry names with "-".  Our dictionary entry names must be fully conformant with CCTS which specifically prohibits this.

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