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Re: [ddlm-group] CIF2 semantics

On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 11:04 AM, I wrote:

>[James] postulates that it is both necessary and sufficient for such an abstract data model to retain the original character sequence of every data value, including those having numeric lexical form.

Correction: James postulates that it is necessary, but *not* sufficient to retain the original character sequences.  For sequences having numeric lexical form, it is also necessary (he argues) to record in some way the fact that the value is potentially interpretable as a number, which James discusses in some of his messages.

My apologies for the original mischaracterization.


John

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