This looks extremely cool. (I would suggest using "." as the
separator.) It seems darned close to a real dictionary, with just prose
documentation missing.
Eve
At 12:40 PM 2/13/02 -0600, Burcham, Bill wrote:
>I took a snippet of The Spreadsheet (as it existed last week) and did two
>things to it:
>
>a) I added a column for the "CC Dictionary Entry Name".
>b) I added a column called "Property Qualifier"
>
>The CC Dictionary Entry Name has a (not very good) formula to compute the
>dictionary entry name. Needs 1) separators added, 2) search backward for
>nearest "object class" -- for now each group of property definitions has
>their "object class" hardcoded in their formula.
>
>I added the "Property Qualifier" column so that the names for properties
>would conform to the NDR SC rule for dictionary entry names for properties
>-- the one we arrived at on the last day of the F2F, to wit: [Qualifier]
>PropertyTerm [RepresentationTerm]. Before I added the column, the
>spreadsheet was using the "object class" column to define parts of
>property names.
>
>So if you look at this spreadsheet, you'll see that property definitions
>do not use the "object class" field -- good. Also, (reusable) type
>definitions=CC's=BIE's use only the "object class" field for their names.
>
>I think it's really important to do these two things to The Spreadsheet soon.
>
>-Bill
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