Itโs completely clear to me - the question is what we (Google App Engine designers) thought about adding these โsemanticโ types of properties.
Then I was not in the team, but I think that we were in love with the automatic generation of XML from objects using the ATOM scheme. I do not think it is very popular or useful in practice. You can ignore them - their check is trivial (should not be empty).
In NDB (the new Python client for the data warehouse), I decided not to support these semantic property types or XML generation, and so far only one person has requested it: http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/ detail? id = 96
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