How generic is the goal to meet "Simple Darwin Core"

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The Project Home carries the text
"Apple Core datasets will be expressible as Simple Darwin Core or as an 
Occurrence core (http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence.xml) with an 
Identification History extension 
(http://rs.gbif.org/extension/dwc/identification.xml)."

Since "Simple Darwin Core" is an organizing principle, not a constraint set, is 
the meaning of the first clause "will be expressible in a way  that conforms to 
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/index.htm" or does it mean "will be 
expressible in a way that conforms to either 
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/xsd/tdwg_dwc_simple.xsd or 
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/examples/text/example_text_simpledwc_complete.xml"

If the latter (which I hope is the case), it would be wise to specify a version 
of each of those, or at least urge that serializations carry enough information 
to know which.

If you mean the organizing principle thingie, you may open an unknown future 
can of worms...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by morris.bob on 10 Oct 2011 at 5:12