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<p class="MsoNormal">HI Mark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just for now:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From the vo-dml spec:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Modelers SHOULD NOT use open ended multiplicities, i.e. with maxOccurs=-1, but it is not illegal in the current version of this specification. "<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">indicates it is not illegal to use non-fixed size data type instances. (not that I like them as you know)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The fact that you think you need it here may be due to an incompleteness in the model as I described in my previous email.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It may well be that the structure of the mapping, including explicitly representation of what-is-mapped-to-what, could make the need for an explicit indication of forward vs inverse redundant.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So looking forward to seeing more details of the model (and I can comment on another thread).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerard<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are flavors which have open ended list of content<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Lookup table has open ended list of Entries<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Polynomials have open ended list of Coefficients, to avoid individually modeling the different order of polynomial functions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DataTypes are supposed to have fixed size.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mark<o:p></o:p></p>
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