Re: Review of the the DM pre CR version (Re: Final round of Direct Mapping spec changes; please review to prepare for CR)

Enrico,

Let's work something out.  I'll take it offline with you.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Enrico Franconi <franconi@inf.unibz.it>wrote:

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> On 31 Jan 2012, at 16:10, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
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> >
> >> For now: let us close the issue.
> >
> > +1
>
> +1
> (This was the original idea; Marcelo and Juan couldn't find time to work
> together with me on this note; I hope this can be done quite soon)
>
> --e.
>
> > On 31 Jan 2012, at 15:11, Ivan Herman wrote:
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> >>
> >> On Jan 31, 2012, at 15:51 , Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In R1.20, I broke it up into two sentences:
> >>> [[
> >>> The direct mapping does not generate triples for NULL values.
> >>> Note that it is not known how to relate the behavior of the obtained
> RDF graph with the standard SQL semantics of the NULL values of the source
> RDB.
> >>> ]]
> >>
> >> Works for me.
> >>
> >>> and believe that the current text resolves this issue. I believe
> however that expressing this in terms of use cases would be more helpful to
> the reader than is text that says "we don't know if we did this right".
> Suggestions?
> >>
> >> Any such examples/use cases would be informative anyway. As a
> consequence,  I would propose for this publishing round (ie, CR) to keep it
> at as is in the latest version and move on. Any additional change (separate
> note, examples, etc) will be informative, editorial changes, that can be
> done when closing CR. I would not want to see ourselves delaying CR due to
> this issue.
> >>
> >> If there are short and sweet examples showing the issue, then let us
> indeed put that into a, say, an informative appendix for the PR version of
> the document (the section we are talking about now is normative, ie, we
> should not really put it there). If, by then, a separate note is prepared,
> then we can leave the current DM text as is and rely on the note.
> >>
> >> For now: let us close the issue.
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> (note that, in the original text, it was behaviour instead of
> behavior. Some British spy came in and spoiled the pure American
> document!:-)
> >>>>
> >>>> This was me.
> >>>> I've learnt that English is a European language which was adopted and
> simplified by Americans...
> >>>>
> >>>> --e.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -ericP
> >>
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
> >> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
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