repeating textType?

Chad Berkley berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
Wed Sep 18 08:13:54 PDT 2002


I agree.  This was probably just an oversight. Anyone see a problem with
doing a global change to make the cardinality=1?

chad

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 07:38, Tim Bergsma wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm looking at the RC1 png's for dataset, protocol, methods, and
> researchProject.  Everywhere TextType occurs, it's cardinality is listed
> as one to infinity.  I think this is an error.  When we had paragraph,
> it made sense for it to repeat.  But TextType is explicitly a wrapper
> for paragraphs (and other things).  There is no need for it to repeat,
> and in fact, some confusion arises if it does.  It's cardinality should
> always be exactly one.  Even in methods, (especially in methods!) if you
> want to serialize a description, you should create extra methodSteps,
> not repeat the methodStep/description(txt).
> 
> Tim.
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