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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model
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  Reporter:  markh           |       Owner:  [email protected]
      Type:  task            |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:                               
 Component:  cf-conventions  |     Version:                               
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:                               
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Comment (by biard):

 I think this way of thinking about the issue of global vs variable
 attributes within the CF data model is taking us down a wrong path.  The
 idea that there should, in essence, be no "container" construct within the
 CF data model seems to me to be an attempt to force a particular
 viewpoint, rather than model what exists.

 Given that it's not likely that people will change this course, here's a
 suggestion for a compromise.  If you allow an attribute to itself have a
 "parent" attribute associated with it, you could capture both the variable
 attribute value and the global attribute value without forcing a
 particular way of resolving the precedence question.  You could give the
 association a name (that escapes me at the moment) to indicate the
 precedence relationship.

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