UBL Naming and Design Rules SC

Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Re: Minutes for 6 February 2002 UBL NDR meeting

  • 1.  Re: [ubl-ndrsc] Re: Minutes for 6 February 2002 UBL NDR meeting

    Posted 02-12-2002 00:23
    Unfortunately, this definition by reference still does not tell me what exactly is a leaf element, particularly as it's peppered with howevers. Sorry for appearing thick (or being, as some would assert;-)) but I still don't understand what a leaf element is, and I can't create an example thereof. Eve L. Maler wrote: > > At 05:28 PM 2/8/02 -0800, Eduardo Gutentag wrote: > > Eve L. Maler wrote: > > > Eduardo, please note the ACTION below that the SC hoped you would take > > > on. Can you positively acknowledge this? > > > >I believe there might be an error in the minutes; I have no recollection > >of volunteering for this. This may be a voice-identification issue. > > I believe people discussed this after you dropped off, and they hoped you > would be willing to take on this action item after being informed that the > task needs doing. > > >Talking about confusion, I have a problem with the use of the term leaf . > >For me that refers to a non-branching element, that is an element with > >attributes and data, but with no further elements contained in it. Many > >people seem to use leaf with a rather different meaning. Could someone > >explain to me what do they mean by leaf ? > > Unfortunately, I wasn't in the conversation either. I hope someone will > speak up to clarify. > > For my part, I think there's a clue in the CC structure that Mike R. > referred to in his recent message: the difference between the primary > content of a CC and its supplementary components. For an element that > directly contains characters, it would be a fairly clean and > deterministic break to say that its content should be the primary content > associated with that CC and the supplementary components should be attributes. > > However, I fear that this may offer only a false hope if, for example, some > of the supplementary components have (or would benefit from) internal > structure. > > Also, if this is such a good dividing line, it would work for non-leaf > elements as well as leaf elements. E.g., the primary content would be in > the form of some structured subelements and the supplementary components > could easily be attributes. > > I think it's time for a set of examples that's varied enough for us to test > the different scenarios. Perhaps we can extract such a thing from the > growing PartyExample. Arofan, can you speak to this? > > Eve > -- > Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 > Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center eve.maler @ sun.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: < http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl > -- Eduardo Gutentag e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM XML Technology Center Phone: (510) 986-3651 x73651 Sun Microsystems Inc.