I think this is good. <+first> specializes <+name>.
The following example I think would remain unchanged:
=markus+address<+street>&/&/...
=markus+address<+country>&/&/...
I.e. +address is still an entity.
Markus
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Drummond Reed <> wrote:
A second unresolved issue from last Friday's telecon was attribute contextualization. In short, the question was which of the following was correct:
#1: =markus+first<+name>&/&/”.....”
#2: =markus<+first><+name>&/&/”.....”
On the TC call I argued for #1, because +first itself was not an attribute. However in discussing it this weekend with Markus I realized there was a much stronger argument for #2: to contextualize an attribute you MUST use only other attributes because all attributes must ultimately describe the entity they follow.
In other words, <+first> MUST be an attribute in the example above because <+name> is ultimately an attribute of =markus, not of +first.
If everyone agrees, then we just discovered another key rule of using XDI syntax that we will express in XDI Core.
=Drummond
