[OASIS Issue Tracker] (ODATA-1065) Generalize Edm.AnyPath to be a path to any model element

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Ralf Handl commented on ODATA-1065:
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In addition to the abstract type we also need an expression to actually reference something other than a property, navigation property, or annotation:

<Annotation Term="Adhoc.MyFavoriteModelElement"
  <ModelElementPath>/my.schema/someAction</ModelElementPath>
</Annotation>

<Annotation Term="Adhoc.MyFavoriteModelElement"
                    ModelElementPath="/my.schema/someAction</ModelElementPath" />

"AnyPath" would look a bit odd in the above examples: how about renaming the abstract type to "ModelElementPath"?

> Generalize Edm.AnyPath to be a path to any model element
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ODATA-1065
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/ODATA-1065
>             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: CSDL JSON , CSDL XML
>    Affects Versions: V4.01_CSD01
>         Environment: Proposed
>            Reporter: Ralf Handl
>             Fix For: V4.01_CSD02
>
>
> With ODATA-516 we introduced the abstract type Edm.AnyPath as an abstraction of Edm.AnnotationPath, Edm.PropertyPath, and Edm.NavigationPropertyPath.
> We now face situations where we want to reference other types of model elements, e.g. bound actions or functions.
> It seems wise to use the rather generic name "AnyPath" really for any path to any type of model element, which would
> a) postpone the need for actually adding specific types Edm.ActionPath, Edm.FunctionPath, Edm.EntityTypePath, ...
> b) allow us to later add these more specific types for the more common cases



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