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Thomas,
When I read this I feel good about how we have engineered CAM.
These real world examples show that we have it right - since it
can handle all of this in its stride. 3 different ways of
looking at one value? No problems. And context driven - yes!
Sure people can bitch about this not being 'simple' - but the
kind of use cases you have shown only proves you need strong
adaptability and flexibility to solve these real world needs.
Fortunately - unlike Tim's thoughts on XQuery - I feel very
confident that CAM has managed to address the needs.
Thanks, DW.
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Quoting "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>:
> Roger L. Costello wrote:
>
> > - The value of the <minimum-age> must be an integer. This is a
> > constraint on the data. It will not change over time.
>
> Ha! What happens when the government decides that some relevant age is
> 67.5 years instead of 67?
>
> > Therefore, an XML Schema should simply constrain <minimum-age> to be
> > an integer. Higher level applications should implement the business
> > rule that <minimum-age> be further constrained to 16.
> >
> > How would you characterize the distinction between "business rules"
> > and "constraints on data"?
>
> A tricky, tricky issue - what is or is not a "business rule". I suspect
> that in practice most constraints that are not business rules are in
> place for supposed programming reasons, or by force of habit.
>
> In one project I work on, we have a data type that is a union of 1) an
> enumeration of strings, 2) a string that follows a certain regex
> pattern, and 3) an integer constrained to a certain range. No, don't
> bother to ask - it's one of those multi-agency reconciliations.
>
> --
> Thomas B. Passin
> Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Manning Books)
> http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin
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