Utypes & VOTable

[Francois Ochsenbein]

Doug,

It's most likely true that to-day there is no ambiguity in any of the
IVOA data models (not 2 components in a data model bear names which
differ just by their case) -- in order to prevent a problem it could just
be stated that IVOA data models components must bear unique names in any
case-sensitivity change.

--Francois

>
>On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:
>
>> -- case-sensitiveness (end of section 1.1): the utype syntax has to
>>    follow the data model rules -- and if the components of a data model
>>    are case-sensitive, the utypes have logically to be case-sensitive, too.
>
>Perhaps, but the problem is that Utypes are used "outside" a data
>model, and can be passed around in many environments and languages,
>input as parameters or URLs, etc.  Case-sensitivity works well in lower
>level, compiled type situations, but is likely to cause problems in
>the kind of usage we will have with Utypes where there can be many
>layers of software involved.
>
>	- Doug
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