Re: PROV-ISSUE-557: why collectionMemberOf instead of hadMember? [XML Serialization]

I believe Luc is correct, this is a legacy name from when we had both dictionaryMemberOf and collectionMemberOf.

I will make the change to memberOf.

--Stephan

On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:49 AM, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This relation is still legacy definition dating back from the time we had dictionary/collection.
> 
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Electronics and Computer Science
> University of Southampton 
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> United Kingdom
> 
> On 18 Sep 2012, at 15:19, "Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker" <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
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>> PROV-ISSUE-557: why collectionMemberOf instead of hadMember? [XML Serialization]
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>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/557
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>> Raised by: Curt Tilmes
>> On product: XML Serialization
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>> I realize collectionMemberOf has extra capabilities over a straight hadMember translation (you can specify the 'complete' flag, and specify multiple members in one go), but could we not keep the "hadMember" name for that element even so?
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>> All the other XML schema fields have kept the same name for the PROV-N and PROV-XML concepts, it just seems a shame to replace hadMember with collectionMemberOf.
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Received on Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:24:16 UTC