Ed2 short to Ed1 long conversion

[Jochen Haenisch]

Peter,
we should probably have a test case for this.
Do you already see a potential candidate for such order dependence?
Regards, Jochen.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wilson, Peter R [SMTP:peter.r.wilson at boeing.com]
> Sent:	8. mai 2002 20:04
> To:	'wg11'
> Cc:	Wilson, Peter R
> Subject:	Ed2 short to Ed1 long conversion
> 
>     The proposed algorithm ("Guidance for generating long-form EXPRESS
> schemas for all editions of EXPRESS", Feeney, Haenisch, Price and Wasmer,
> 2001/08/27) for short to long forms includes an Ed2 to Ed1 algorithm.
> 
>     Does anyone know if the overall algorithm is order independent? That
> is,
> do you get the same result if you convert all the participating schemas
> (which in future will be a mix of Ed1 and Ed2) to Ed1 and then do the
> short-to-long process as when you do a short-to-long process (resulting in
> an Ed2 long) and then do the Ed2 to Ed1 conversion?
> 
> Peter W.
> 
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