[DDI-SRG] rehashing old discussions

[Joachim Wackerow]

Probably you are right to provide a choice. r:Name or r:Label, this is 
very much dependent from how the user of DDI 2 defined the semantics for 
@ID and @name (often it is only an implicit assumption). I think in many 
cases @name should go to r:Name, but the person who is responsible for 
the mapping process should think about. So it makes sense to offer a choice.

Furthermore it raises the question where the variable name should go in 
DD 3.0. When it is in r:Label with @type="VariableName", what is then in 
r:Name? The documentation doesn't seem to be clear with that. I think we 
have to describe the preferred way. r:Name seems to be the right place 
at least for variable. But r:Label offers more flexibility with the type 
attribute. Do we have a preferred location for variable name?

Achim


Wendy Thomas wrote:
> In doing the translation for 2 to 3 I did the following in terms of 
> handling the @name for var (required), varGrp (optional), nCubeGrp 
> (optional) and ncube (optional). I used a standard option of the Name 
> elemnt in the identification standard content or Label. See example below 
> from var.
> 
> s:StudyUnit/l:LogicalProduct/l:VariableScheme/l:Variable/r:Label OR r:Name 
> r:Label OR r:Name	r:internationalStringType,  r:Label is extended to 
> include @type and @maxLength if appropriate	May also use the Name in 
> the Identification base elements
> 
> Is it wrong to provide this option? I have a slew of NHGIS where the name 
> content is simply a replication of the ID content because its required. 
> Personally when I tranlate these that's going right out the window. In the 
> NCubes we used it for the table number which may make more sense as a 
> label.
> 
> Thoughts? Sanda wants them all to go to Name rather than providing an 
> option.
> 
> Wendy
> 
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