desise format for vocabularies

[Mark Taylor]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, Baptiste Cecconi wrote:

> > Le 14 oct. 2024 à 21:26, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk> a écrit :
> > 
> > It sounds reasonable, but requiring that the desise "deprecated"
> > member has the value 'true' in desise presents a backward compatibility
> > issue, so it would be disruptive.  Recommending the value 'true',
> > for the purposes of human readability, might make sense.
> 
> Since Semantics controls the vocabularies, there is no fundamental issue to update the deprecated property implementation rule.
> 
> The compatibility issue would be with the tools using the "deprecated" property. Do we know who is using this ? 

Stilts validators (votlint, taplint) consume the "deprecated" and
"preliminary" flags.  They wouldn't break badly if this change were made;
but in that case of course current versions would fail to report
incorrect usage (e.g.  deprecated: "1").

Mark

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