Re: Minimalist "validate" solution

Conforms is a good suggestion. - kc

On 11/10/16 1:06 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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