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

On 31 Jan 2012, at 16:10, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

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>> For now: let us close the issue.
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> +1

+1
(This was the original idea; Marcelo and Juan couldn't find time to work together with me on this note; I hope this can be done quite soon)

--e.

> 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:
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>>> 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.
>>> ]]
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>> Works for me.
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> For now: let us close the issue.
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>> 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!:-)
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>>>> This was me.
>>>> I've learnt that English is a European language which was adopted and simplified by Americans...
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>>>> --e.
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>>> -- 
>>> -ericP
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