[DAS2] feature NOTE and ALIAS elements?

[Helt,Gregg]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: das2-bounces at portal.open-bio.org 
> [mailto:das2-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Dalke
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:45 AM
> To: DAS/2
> Subject: Re: [DAS2] properties and queries
> 
> 
> To summarize, the current thought here for properties and 
> queries is as follows  (it's a long summary.  More like an essay.  :)
> 
> Add support for zero or more <NOTE> elements in the feature, 
> of the form
>    <NOTE>This is some arbitrary (but non-markup-ed) text</NOTE>
> 
> 
> Add a features search keyword "note=" which takes a search 
> string to be found in the note elements.  (substring? 
> soundex? regex? the search engine calls up Lincoln and asks?)
> 
> 
> Add support for zero or more <ALIAS> elements in the feature, 
> of the form
>    <ALIAS name="Zorro">
> 
> (I missed this in the redraft.  It should have been there. 
> Feature filter "name" already says it searches the "name" and 
> "alias" fields for a feature.)

Is the plan still as stated above, to have optional NOTE and ALIAS
elements in features?  I don't see these elements in the feature schema,
and the spec doc says they're built-in properties instead (values for
PROP key attribute that have defined meaning).

	Gregg