Re: Minimalist "validate" solution

This suggestion looks fine to me too (but not a native speaker as well)
another term we could consider is conforms / not conforms

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Another "minimalism" would be to use the language "is/are valid" "is/are
> not valid", which meshes well with the tables that Eric added to the
> examples.
>
> kc
>
>
> On 11/4/16 12:29 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>
>> diff: http://bit.ly/2em5UH3
>>
>> This shows how the minimalism solution would work, using section 3
>> Validation as the demo.
>>
>> This minimalist solution leaves the term "validation" in place, defined
>> as:
>>
>> "Validation is the process of determining whether a data graph, or nodes
>> in the data graph, is consistent with the constraints in a shapes graph.
>> Data graphs or nodes that are consistent with the constraints in the
>> shapes graph are said to "successfully validate"; those that are not
>> consistent are said to "not successfully validate".
>>
>> As you can see in the diff, places where "validates" was being used to
>> mean "does validate successfully" have been re-worded "successfully
>> validates". If this solution is acceptable to the group (perhaps we can
>> vote on it next time), then I can take a read through the entire spec
>> and make this change.
>>
>> Less minimalist solutions would require us to substitute another term
>> for "validation". Some possible terms are:
>> - verification
>> - evaluation
>> - comparison
>>
>> Any of these would result in about 250 changes to the document. Those
>> changes are not difficult to make, but that would be a more substantial
>> change.
>>
>> kc
>>
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