Re: [ubl-cmsc] Hierarchical Context Values

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

Boringly, I think I agree with Eduardo again. :-)

It would be cleanest to understand and to process if we could squeeze the 
whole hierarchy into the value.  For example, let's say that these are some 
options:

Geopolitical:
   Europe
     France
       Paris
       Lyons
     Italy
       Naples
       Venice
   Americas
     UnitedStates
     Mexico

It would be nicest if the value choices could be represented (not in any 
interface, just in the XML) as "Europe:France" or "Europe:Italy:Naples" or 
whatever.  Then you're just a text search away from knowing what is "in" 
what.  Some of these could get fairly long, but then I imagine that depth 
is less of a problem than breadth of choices at any one level.

Naively,

         Eve

At 04:22 PM 11/16/01 +0100, Matthew Gertner wrote:
>5) How do we determine how hierarchical context driver values
>are matched? For example, when does "France" match "Europe" (since Europe
>contains France) and when does it match only "France" exactly? The
>Vienna document uses the "Apply" attribute for this purpose.

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