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Re: [ubl-ndrsc] deterministic generation of Dictionary Entry Names

  • 1.  Re: [ubl-ndrsc] deterministic generation of Dictionary Entry Names

    Posted 02-13-2002 14:06
    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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