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On 26/06/12 15:33, Martijn van Iersel wrote:
> As you know, during the Colomoto and HARMONY meetings, we discussed
> removing some of the unused elements of SBML-Qual, in the hope that
> this will make the spec simpler and more mature.
>
> I've attached a patch that marks the concerned methods as deprecated
> in JSBML. This is a conservative approach: most of these are not
> actually used by any software at all. So it may be better to remove
> these functions instead of deprecating them. If you wish, I could make
> a patch for this as well.
>
> I think the only element that is somewhat used in software is
> boundaryCondition on QualitativeSpecies. So it may be a good idea to
> deprecate that one and remove all the rest.
>

Yes, I would remove them. You should send a mail to the colomoto and/or
sbml-qual mailing list to see if anybody is using boundaryCondition and
remove it as well if nobody reply to complain in the next week.

> One final note: the ListOfSymbolicValues on QualitativeSpecies may
> still come back in some form or other. However, it's certain that it's
> not going to stay in its current form, so it makes sense to remove it
> or deprecate it to prevent people from using it accidentally.
>

Yes, we should remove it as well

Let me know if you try to provide a patch for the removal of the unused
attributes and elements ?

Thanks,
Nico

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