Metadata support: EntitiesDescriptor/@Name handling

[Brent Putman]

On 8/16/13 2:14 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
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> I think the point is that the group-based functors and rules are
> deprecated or will be, 

Ok, I don't think I was aware we were going to do that.  Mostly because
in my head I was separating the concept of an "entity group" from the
syntactic representation as EntitiesDescriptors.  The latter I knew was
going away, but I assumed the former is still a useful abstraction and
that we'd still preserve the notion of a named "entity group" one way or
another.


> and that similar functionality would be achieved
> with the entity attribute based versions.

Makes sense that the more general entity attribute-based ones could
replace.  However, unfortunately we can't do if we use object metadata
as Ian is (I think) advocating.  In that case I think we'd have to keep
the *EntityGroup* functors around, but now they'd eval the object
metadata rather than look at EntitiesDescriptors directly.