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Undefined terms in SDD Specifications Document:

It seems that this Specification mixes data and Specification of processing to be done on this data by an application. Processing is a very interesting subject (see transforms), but good design is layered design, and processing seems an upper and distinct layer.

Eric Zurcher a écrit :

1) One "pattern" that recurs in the document in the use of "attachments" to
entities. ....
2) ID numbers crop up in a number of places. But it's not obvious how
"unique" these various IDs need to be.
I agree.
some sort of "connection operator"
between states within a character (e.g., "flowers blue or violet" vs.
"flowers blue and violet" vs. "flowers blue to violet"
"flowers blue and violet" will have to be covered by my proposed "Abstract Data Model for Taxonomy".

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