[DDI-SRG] ok I know I said no more bugs..but...

[Pascal Heus]

Wendy:
hmmm, good one. My concern is that some Label do not allow structure
(variables for example). Having a flag is an interesting option (I
assume default to false) but I'm not sure this is enough, some
people/application will likely ignore this. Do we have a list of the
Label elements and which ones need to be structured on unstructured?
*P


Wendy Thomas wrote:
> Karl Dinkelman raised a point today when asking when they would see the 
> ability to use structured text in QuestionText. He mentioned that often 
> they need to indicate an underline or bold in a response category. 
> Currently this is not possible as Label is an InternationalString. This 
> made sense when we piled the content of spss names etc into Label. Now 
> that we have broken all of these different aspects out, Label is now 
> treated as display Label. If we changed this to a structured string with 
> the added ability to indicate if structure was required for sense and the 
> prefered display we would be able to meet their needs fully. The question 
> is twofold:
>
> First, does this hold true universally for "Label" or would we be 
> introducing garbage in some places.
>
> Second, are we willing to expand the resolution of our Name, Label, 
> Description discussion to include this or does it need to wait for next 
> time.
>
> Karl will get back to us with their assessment by tomorrow morning.
>
> Wendy
>
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