[Application-profiles-ig] Please review first draft

Thu Oct 15 20:05:32 BST 2020

On 2020-10-15 05:10, Thomas Baker wrote: >Perhaps we could have two documents: a Reference and a Primer. The>Primer could look at the process of creating a profile, starting with>the minimal property list, adding various constraints, and grouping>those statements into shapes.It occurs to me that 1) adding value constraints and 2) grouping statements into shapes are two possible, complementary, but quite different avenues of complexification, where one avenue does not necessarily imply the other. These could perhaps be handled in separate sections of the Primer: - A section on adding constraints could get into the details of value constraints -- mand/repeat, node types, datatypes, constraints, and constraint types -- but completely in the absence of shapes. - A section on shapes could illustrate the grouping of properties as shapes (shapeID and shapeValue) -- but completely in the absence of value constraints. - A third section could illustrate the annotation of minimal profiles with shapeLabel, propertyLabel, and note -- but completely in the absence both of value constraints and of shapes. At the end, there could be one "complete" example that richy illustrates all of the above. In each example, except perhaps in the final "complete" example, the reader would not be presented with any detail not directly relevant to the point being illustrated. Tom -- Tom Baker <tom at tombaker.org>