[tcs-lc] attributes scientific and language

Richard Pyle deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Wed May 11 11:25:55 PDT 2005


Hi James,

> TCS upto 0.95.2 seems allowing Name attributes scientific="true" and
> language other than Codes simultaneously.  Isn't it better to prohibit
> to have both attributes?  It would be relevant to item 0000008.  My
> suggestion is to cover scientific names as a kind of language, i.e.
> considering Codes a kind of language, and remove scientific attribute,
> although others do not like this design.

I confess that I originally was not so happy with the idea of treating Code
as a language, but gradually I am seeing the value of using the same
attribute for Code of scientific names, and language of non-scientific
names.

Rich




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