Michael Wayne Goodman

Why not make these synset definitions with language attributes? ```xml ヒノキの木材 wood of Japanese cypress ``` I'm also somewhat opposed to the idea of ILI-definitions in lexicons in general (https://github.com/globalwordnet/schemas/issues/43),...

The WN-LMF schema does not prevent nor otherwise forbid an `` from appearing for any particular values or absence of the `ili` attribute, so in some sense I agree that...

Are you talking about warning during validation or during normal use of Wn? To me, the former seems acceptable but not the latter, as this is just bad formatting and...

> I was indeed thinking of warning during validation. Ok, good. It wasn't clear, so I changed the title. We could also check for similar whitespace issues in other elements...

Thanks, @francis-dion, that's a good point. I'd forgotten about `xml:space`. The [W3 spec says this](https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-white-space) about the default value: > The value "default" signals that applications' default white-space processing modes...

Thanks! I'm concerned how it would scale when we consider more than just hypernym relations, but it's worth considering.

Some updates to this: Here is a query that recursively finds relations within the same lexicon: ```sql WITH RECURSIVE rt(rowid) AS (SELECT rowid FROM relation_types WHERE type IN (?,...)), --...

Changing the label to "maintenance" as this doesn't change functionality, only (potentially) performance.

Confirming my participation! Also I have a change of affiliation: I am now with Nanyang Technological University.

While this repo uses an old version of penman, this issue also affects the latest version. I've created goodmami/penman#99 to track the issue there.