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New text: Attributes with no equality matching rule
To address this issue, I suggest the following changes be made
to [Models]:
Delete from 2.3 the sentence:
If the attribute type is defined with no equality matching rule,
two values are equivalent if and only if they are identical.
Add after first paragraph of section 2.5.1:
If no equality matching is specified for the attribute type:
- the attribute (of the type) cannot be used for naming;
- individual values of a multi-valued attribute cannot be
added or deleted;
- attribute value assertions using values of such a type
cannot be performed.
Otherwise, the equality matching rule is to be used for the
purposes of evaluating attribute value assertions concerning
the attribute type.
I note that I didn't say anything about syntax checking of
values as this is already covered in section 2.5.4. Also,
I didn't think it necessary to call out comparisons from AVAs
(given we describe compares in terms of AVAs).
Comments?
Kurt