[cellml-discussion] Proposed CellML 1.2 change: removing group and replacing it with an encapsulation element

[Andrew Miller]

Hi all,

As has been previously discussed on this mailing list, grouping in the 
general sense can be used to represent information such as containment 
which would more appropriately be treated as metadata and represented in 
RDF/XML. The overall process of moving this information out into 
metadata is discussed in tracker item 316 
(https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316).

As a step towards this, I have created a derivative of the connection 
simplification branch in which the group and relationship_ref elements 
are removed from the specification, and replaced with an encapsulation 
element. The encapsulation element still contains a hierarchy of 
component_ref children, as before.

I have pushed this change into my public git repository at 
git://repo.or.cz/srv/git/cellml-draft-miller.git branch 
encapsulation-only. I have also put up a rendered version of this draft 
at 
http://www.cellml.org/Members/miller/draft-normative-spec-encapsulation-only/toplevel.xhtml 
. I created https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356 for 
discussion on this issue - please add yourself to the CC list for the 
tracker item if you are interested.

Best regards,
Andrew