Re: [Treebase-devel] [PhyloWS] query predicate vocabulary

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

> 1) The pattern for constructing the label uses a dot to delimit "words"
> (e.g., identifier.tree), whereas normally the pattern I've seen uses
> CamelCase (which would yield treeIdentifier). For the standard vocabulary
> I'd rather stick with common conventions, so what were the reasons or
> examples that motivated the dot pattern?

No reason. If CamelCase is the convention, we should stick with that.
I simply did not know that.

> 2) None of the properties seems to have a definition. I think in the
> standard one we should aim for all properties to have good definitions. Do
> others agree that this is worthwhile, or do you think this wouldn't gain
> anything. (There are initial definitions in the spreadsheet, for example.)

I think this would be useful.

> 3) The spreadsheet has additional information that looks actually useful,
> such as the Xpath expression for NeXML. Wouldn't that be worth retaining to?

Yes.

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