Re: TMQL: Minor issue: Plurals for paths

Hi Benjamin,

> I wonder why this "minor issue" as you call it upsets you so much in
> 2011 but it did never upset you in the last years. The axis names are
> plural since at least N826 [1] and you never complained about that.

That's right. Maybe I have just overlooked this issue in the earlier
drafts since I never liked the syntax of the navigation section.

[...]
> Why do you want somebody else to explain your (IMHO strange) ideas to
> you? Writing "How does" you assume this is the case, but it is not.
> Your first example query would return all occurrences of type homepage
> while the latter would return nothing.

Yes, that's what I said (supposed to say?) in my msg. Anyway, since
the "s" for plural/multiple results seems to be gone, you can safely
ignore the "How does" :)

> The following queries each return _all_ occurrences of type homepage:

>     topic / homepage
>     topic / occurrences(homepage)

Yes, I understood that.

These queries should also work (unsure if the second query is still
allowed, though):

    topic/occurrences()[./type = homepage]


    topic/occurrences()[. isa homepage]

My point is that translating

   topic/occurrence into topic/*[. isa tmdm:occurrence]

seems to be more more logical, given that

   topic/homepage

is also translated into topic/*[. isa homepage]

IMO there is a logical break; given that

    topic/tmdm:occurrence   # singular

yields the same result as

    topic/occurrences()     # plural


Anyway, as said, this is a minor issue. I just came back to this issue
because of a chatting session.

Best regards,
Lars
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