[topicmapmail] Announcement of XML Schema for ISO 13250 Topic Maps

[David RR Webber]

Message text written by "Michel Biezunski"
>There is one thing that simply can't be done if we stick with Martin's
solution: it would
become impossible to express topic maps in several languages, because there
would be no
way to express the occurrence roles, or association types, etc., in more
than one language.
All applications for the European Community for example would have to be
limited to
one language. This is not what most users want.

Michel<

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Michel,

That's a great point - and actually re-inforces Martins point that
we can't be limited to a single set of rigid tagsets.

The solution is using Bizcode style markers.  In ebXML parlance
this is a UID - Universal ID - and then having the UID as an
ATTRIB of each element.   Therefore machine recognition of
like parameters is then possible - along with Registry referencing
and a rich associative behaviour implementation.

I'm sort of contridicting myself a bit - since machine lead interfacing
is necessary to pull this off.  The union however is in the UID's 
themselves.  Using a prefix/value metaphor always UID's that 
are at least human verifiable - so I htnk we are ultimately talking
about the same thing.  A blend of machine and human.  We want
an approach that is sufficiently flexible that humans can interact 
and verify the process, but NOT so cryptic that the human is
excluded from the underpinning entirely.

See http://www.bizcodes.org for extended discussion of use
of UID style markers to enable eBusiness semantics.

Thanks, DW.