!ASIS Issue #008
!topic Flattening of Node Kinds
!reference ASIS95-ASIS
!from D. Ehrenfried 95-03-08
!keywords Kinds, Node Kinds
!discussion

This issue was submitted on 1 January 1995 for discussion at the March
1995 ASISWG meeting. The original email had 2 issues. Issue #006
captures the first issue while Issue #008 captures the second issue.

Second Issue =>

2. With each revision of the interface, more flattening of node types
occurs.  DIANA has a completely flat list of node kinds and the lack of
hierarchy makes that interface more difficult to use and understand in
my opinion.  I believe that hierarchy promotes easy of use and
understandability, both in the interface and in the resulting client
code.  I do not believe that any of the current suggestions for
flattening node kinds are good ones.  I would even reverse the flattening
that has already occurred.

!resolution Rejected.
!date 95-06-27
!Notes

Although we have not entirely flattened the node types, we have
defined several subtypes, thus "classifying" the node types.  We
also did this with a few of the other types in ASIS.