Re: [core] Base value for SenML

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 20 October 2015 20:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] Base value for SenML
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Christian Amsüss wrote:
> Alternatively, we might want to consider dropping the explicit typing
> information at altogether and have a single "v" (with "bv" as base). The
> draft doesn't contain a rationale on it -- why are there distinct
> attributes at all for what is in my impression modelled as one property?

(That wasn't clear to me either -- if they are mutually exclusive as
they are today, the information is already in the type of the value.)

Grüße, Carsten