>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:18:22 -0800 (PST) >X-Sender: Steven_DeRose@postoffice.brown.edu >To: Erik Wilde <netdret@dret.net>, "Eve L. Maler" <elm@East.Sun.COM>, > dorchard@ca.ibm.com, bent@exemplary.net, > David Lowe <dbl@eng.uts.edu.au> >From: Steve DeRose <Steven_DeRose@brown.edu> >Subject: Re: more thoughts about show=embed... > >on multiple returns... > >I don't think there's much to delve into; HyTime has a specific construct >for this, which uses about the only semantics I can think of that makes >sense: if two ends of a link are multiple ("multlocs"), then they >correspond pairwise. There are built-in notions of multiples, vs. >aggregates (where the set returned is intended to be coalesced). > >Since we do allow multiple, it seems we ought to at least say what we mean, >and the only thing I can think of is to either say they're always >coalesced, always pairwise, or you get a setting. I'd say we should make it >pairwise, and think about adding the option in a later rev. > >Eds, since we haven't said anything about this semantics, it seems like we >should. Thoughts? > > >Steven_DeRose@Brown.edu; http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd >Chief Scientist, Scholarly Technology Group, and > Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University -- Eve Maler Sun Microsystems elm @ east.sun.com +1 781 442 3190Received on Wednesday, 23 February 2000 14:58:14 GMT
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