- From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:10:38 +0000
- To: Yves Savourel <yves@opentag.com>
- CC: public-i18n-its@w3.org
Yves Savourel wrote: > > I understand the interest of having a mapping on each data category from a conceptual viewpoint, but I think it would add > un-necessary efforts on the implementation side, I don't think this is a serious issue. If you have to implement mapping at all, it is easy enough to support all mapping. It is not as if it is hard to implement, after all. > while not adding any additional function since any mapping on data category > realized using a finite list of values can be done using the selection mechanism. mapping is extensible. if we add a third value to yes|no, the mapping will still work. the selection mechanism will need to be rewritten. > I see a possible reasonable boundary: We would have mapping for the cases where the information to access is not enumerable: > locInfo, locInfoRef, termRef, ruby (all the attributes needed) and language. its a fair argument -- Sebastian Rahtz *Open Source and Sustainability* 10-12 April 2006, Oxford http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/ Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 OSS Watch: JISC Open Source Advisory Service http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
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