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On 01/23/2013 03:38 PM, David Chadwick wrote:
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> On 23/01/2013 20:23, Adam Young wrote:
>> Users, Groups and projects are owned by a domain.  This is an attribute
>> hierarchy.
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> this is not the type of hierarchy I was talking about. Attribute 
> hierarchies are object oriented hierarchies in which subtypes inherit 
> all the properties of the supertypes. So for example, the surname 
> attribute type is a subtype of the name attribute type.
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> What you are talking about is a containment hierarchy, in which 
> domains contain projects, and projects contain users. A Venn diagram 
> can be used to nicely depict the containment hierarchy.
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> regards
>
> David
Ah, yes, I see the distinction.  No, I was not talking about object 
hierarchies, just organizational hierarchies.