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A rendering specification cannot decide to split attribute names on '.' to create a hierarchical structure when the Core document defines attribute names as indivisible identifiers (without any internal structure). Forcing this approach will break attributes with names containing other attribute names as prefixes:

occi.core.target = "value"
occi.core.target.type = "value"

It will also make complex attribute values difficult/impossible to identify, e.g. Object (Hash) as an attribute value.

I would recommend flattening this hierarchical structure to:

"attributes": {
"occi.core.attribute.name": Object,
...
}

IMHO, this is an important issue that needs to be addressed.