[Om] name of OMS

[Paul Libbrecht]

Hello OpenMathers,

I would like to raise an ambiguity that I find in the current OpenMath  
vocabulary, e.g. as found in the OpenMath 2 specification:

  Symbols are encoded using the OMS element.

Although there's no statement about the "name" of the OMS element,  
this seems to be mean that that OMS really means a symbol and I find  
this ambiguous with the common naming "symbol" for a member of a  
content-dictionary.

I would thus prefer to use, as much as possible, the name the element  
OMS as "symbol reference".
This would strengthen the URI nature of an OMS and, unavoidably its  
potential URL nature.

I am not clear yet, but I think it would mean an amount of changes for  
the OpenMath 3 spec, at least the line above.

What do you think?

thanks in advance

paul
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