[Om] name of OMS

[Michael Kohlhase]

David Carlisle wrote:
>   
>>  But <CDDefinition> does not define a CD, but declares a symbol in a
>>  CD.
>>     
>
> Yes it's best not to "see" the CD prefix on the element names at all,
> just thing of them as a pre-namespaces namespace mechanism (rather like
> the OM prefix on openmath instance elements). If you read it as CD
> Definition then it could be thought to mena definition of a CD, but if
> you read it as CD:Definition then it's the Definition element in the CD
> Vocabulary which is a better reading.
>   
You are right, but unfortunately, it is not really a definition in the 
strict sense either. It is more a declaration of the form "symbol foo 
exists and has some properties". In almost all instances we have in the 
CDs the properties (either in the description or in the CMP/FMPs) do not 
fully define a symbol. But we should probably let this go.

Michael
> David
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