[Om] name of OMS

[Arjeh Cohen]

I am inclined to go with David.  The Coca Cola logo (compare: symbol)
appears many places.  There are probably regulations by the Coca Cola
company (compare: CD) that specify the logo. In our CD the precise
symbols (OMS) occurs, but is adorned with further information: the
specifications.

Best, Arjeh


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:18:16AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> 
> > That 17 angels can dance on the head of this pin. :-)
> > More seriously, since a symbol IS a reference to an abstract idea,  
> > then the CD entry probably is the symbol, and <OMS name="arcsin"  
> > cd="transc1"/> is a reference to that symbol, so probbaly the wording  
> > ought to be shifted inthe direction Paul suggests.
> 
> personally I always thought of it the other way.
> The OMS is the symbol and a CD gives definitions of symbols.
> 
> 
> This seems to be the intuition behind the naming of CDs as
> "Dictionaries". a token in a document is a word and dictionaries give
> meanings of words. Just as an OMS in an OM Object is a Symbol, and
> Content Dictionaries gfive meanings of symbols.
> 
> David
> 
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