[tcs-lc] attributes scientific and language

[Gregor Hagedorn]

> 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 generally agree that there is a similarity between code and language of 
vernacular. The problem is that for codes we want to use special data 
structures.

For this reason it is not a very good idea to have a value attribute at all 
when using w3c schema. This schema language is not able to validate a 
dependency between an attribute or element value (simple content) and 
structural rules. 

I believe that the attribute is superfluos, the name being a scientific name is 
evident from the LC-like structure being present. If the LC-like structure 
contains a simple Label, this would even be guaranteed if the provider is 
unable to deliver atomized information.

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