[topicmapmail] occurrence abuse ? Was: [geolang-comment] First proposals for ISO 639 and 3166 available

Bernard Vatant bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:12:15 +0200


Jan

I'm glad we agree on our lazyness among other things ...

Just one point:

> > "This International Standard imposes no constraints on the nature of information
objects
> > that can be specified as occurrences of topics, nor on the addressing notations used
to
> > reference such occurrences."

> Well, does it impose constraints on the *relationship* between the topic and the
information objects ?

Actually, no. The TM author is the only one to judge that there is a relationship at all
between the topic and its occurrence, and the nature of this relationship. Like any other
TM assertion in fact.

Beranrd