RE: [API] Resuming API Work : DDRPropertyValue (including enumerations)

CSS defines a number of units, are they sufficient for our purposes, and are they included in the ontology? 

Jo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Rhys Lewis
> Sent: 11 December 2007 11:36
> To: 'Rotan Hanrahan'; 'José Manuel Cantera Fonseca'; public-ddwg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [API] Resuming API Work : DDRPropertyValue (including
> enumerations)
> 
> 
> Hello Rotan,
> 
> The ontology currently captures an abbreviation for each unit and a name.
> Both are effectively US English currently.
> 
> Internationalization of those properties would be accomodated in the
> ontology. I think your suggestion of delegating this kind of issue to the
> ontology is a really good one. It illustrates one of the reasons for
> creating the ontology.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Rotan Hanrahan
> > Sent: 11 December 2007 11:16
> > To: José Manuel Cantera Fonseca; public-ddwg@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: [API] Resuming API Work : DDRPropertyValue
> > (including enumerations)
> >
> >
> > Regarding [1], I notice the getUnits() method returns a
> > String. This means that all units will have to have a
> > normative textual identifier. This could be a URI or an
> > agreed short name. If we use a short name, we could run into
> > trouble because some common units have variations in their
> > names. Consider the millimetre, which has an American
> > spelling of millimeter, and a common abbreviation of mm. Then
> > there's pixel, which has the same short name in all
> > English-speaking regions but has a variety of abbreviations
> > like p, px, pix. Even if we choose to use URIs, not all units
> > have an agreed URI. Perhaps these are things that the UWA
> > ontology should capture, and the DD units can simply point to
> > the right place in the ontology?
> >
> > ---Rotan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of José Manuel
> > Cantera Fonseca
> > Sent: 10 December 2007 13:39
> > To: public-ddwg@w3.org
> > Subject: [API] Resuming API Work : DDRPropertyValue
> > (including enumerations)
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The discussion now need to turn on the DDRPropertyValue
> > object and its methods.
> >
> > Please take a look at the current version of this class in
> > [1]. The DDRPropertyValue class is a subclass of DDRValue [2]
> > which actually has all the methods needed to retrieve a
> > property value. It is important to note that a
> > DDRPropertyValue references the aspect / component to which
> > the property value applies, which is useful in those cases
> > where multiple DDRPropertyValues are obtained
> >
> > Also it is important to have a look at the way that
> > enumerated values are treated and how this would be used to
> > query about thinks like image
> > formats:
> >
> > DDRPropertyValue value =
> > ddr.getPropertyValue("supported_image_formats",key);
> >
> > DDREnumeration enumeration = value.getEnumeration();
> >
> > if(enumeration.contains("cv:gif")) {
> >     System.out.println("GIF format is supported for images"); }
> >
> >
> > Please have a look at this proposal and send comments, it is
> > very important to make progress in the API
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > [1]
> > http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/java/DDR-API-Minima
> l/doc/org/w3c/ddr/DDRPropertyValue.html
> > [2]
> > http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/java/DDR-API-Minima
> > l/doc/org/w3c/ddr/DDRValue.html
> >
> >
> >
>

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