- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:56:00 -0500
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>The XML Schema group would prefer us to use the term "lexical mapping" instead >of "datatype mapping". > >I see no reason why not, and so PROPOSE that we accept xmlsch-03 and action >all the editors to look for the term "datatype mapping" and replace it with >"lexical mapping". >[[ > We agree that it is useful to define a term to denote such mappings; > in the interests of inter-specification consistency, we wonder whether > you would be willing to consider using the term lexical mapping, which > we are introducing in our forthcoming draft of XML Schema 1.1. The > term datatype mapping seems unlikely to be usable in the XML Schema > specification, where it would suggest to some readers a mapping from > one datatype to another, rather than as here a mapping from lexical > space to value space. (XML Schema 1.0 got by without a term for this > concept.) >]] > > >Two reasons we might have for not accepting are: > >1) it may be quite a large editorial change in terms of number of bytes >2) if we decide that our whitespace treatment is sufficiently different from >XML Schema's that we should use a different term In Semantics I always refer to this as 'lexical-to-value mapping' . Anyone want me to change this to 'lexical mapping'? The longer form is readable (just) and harder to misunderstand, seems to me. BTW, I have also now introduced the term 'datatype map' to refer to the D's in D-intepretations, since they are now mappings from urirefs to datatypes (sets of pairs) rather than simply sets of datatypes (to handle the 'naming' issue properly). So this is yet another source of potential confusion with the 'datatype mapping' term. I could change that 'datatype map' terminology if people feel strongly about it, by the way. Any other suggestions for what to call a mapping from urirefs to datatypes? A datatype scheme? A datatype naming scheme? A naming of datatypes? Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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