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Re: 3 possible approaches for representing concepts

• To: Betty Harvey <harvey@e...>
• Subject: Re: 3 possible approaches for representing concepts
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:29:33 -0700
• Cc: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Betty Harvey <harvey@e...> of "Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:35:50 EST." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304021733270.897-100000@e...>
• Sender: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>

> 
> Hi Joe:
> 
> 	This is an age-old discussion.  I would like to point you
> to Robin Covers website:  
> http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/elementsAndAttrs.html
> 
> This has some good reading and some good opinions. 


I don't think this article addresses Joe's questions.  I also know that Joe is 
enough of an old-timer that he's already familiar with most of the discussion 
in the Cover article.

Joe's question is not whether, given a bit of discrete information it should 
be made into a child element or an attribute, but rather how much semantic 
information should be packed into generic identifiers: a much tougher question.

Joe, BTW, I'm with you on selecting #2.  #1 and #3 probably mean that at some 
point there will come a need to break down the semantics in the complex GI, 
and I think that GIs should be as close to atomic as possible for the expected 
life of the data.


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