Re: Review of the the DM pre CR version (Re: Final round of Direct Mapping spec changes; please review to prepare for CR)

> For now: let us close the issue.

+1

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On 31 Jan 2012, at 15:11, Ivan Herman wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2012, at 15:51 , Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
>>
>> In R1.20, I broke it up into two sentences:
>> [[
>> The direct mapping does not generate triples for NULL values.
>> Note that it is not known how to relate the behavior of the  
>> obtained RDF graph with the standard SQL semantics of the NULL  
>> values of the source RDB.
>> ]]
>
> Works for me.
>
>> and believe that the current text resolves this issue. I believe  
>> however that expressing this in terms of use cases would be more  
>> helpful to the reader than is text that says "we don't know if we  
>> did this right". Suggestions?
>
> Any such examples/use cases would be informative anyway. As a  
> consequence,  I would propose for this publishing round (ie, CR) to  
> keep it at as is in the latest version and move on. Any additional  
> change (separate note, examples, etc) will be informative, editorial  
> changes, that can be done when closing CR. I would not want to see  
> ourselves delaying CR due to this issue.
>
> If there are short and sweet examples showing the issue, then let us  
> indeed put that into a, say, an informative appendix for the PR  
> version of the document (the section we are talking about now is  
> normative, ie, we should not really put it there). If, by then, a  
> separate note is prepared, then we can leave the current DM text as  
> is and rely on the note.
>
> For now: let us close the issue.
>
> Ivan
>
>
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>>>> (note that, in the original text, it was behaviour instead of  
>>>> behavior. Some British spy came in and spoiled the pure American  
>>>> document!:-)
>>>
>>> This was me.
>>> I've learnt that English is a European language which was adopted  
>>> and simplified by Americans...
>>>
>>> --e.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -ericP
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