Re: [xml-dev] The real world doesn't have an "other xyz", neither should your XML

From: John Cowan <>
To: Kurt Cagle <>
Date: 2014-02-11T04:03:38Z
ID: <>
Thread: Re: [xml-dev] The real world doesn't have an "other xyz", neither should your XML

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Kurt Cagle <[email protected]> wrote:

Controlled vocabularies are by definition "controlled" - adding, modifying or deleting terms from within a controlled vocabulary is done expressly by a curator.

Indeed, it's common for such vocabularies to have not one but many "other" terms: after "hepatitis A", "hepatitis B", etc. it is usual to have "hepatitis, not otherwise specified". Indeed this is common enough to have the standard abbreviation "NOS".

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