[topicmapmail] Embedding XTM Was: XTM Datatypes

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com> on Fri, 13 Dec
2002 06:12:09 -0500

> > The problem is that you have to know what it *means* to have XTM embedded
> > another XML format.  I suggested one semantic interpretation, but surely not
> > the only one.  The issue is that I'm not convinced that everyone would
> > implement topic map extraction identically to the way I would.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "know what it means". I don't see how the 
> context in which a topicMap element occurs can, in any way, affect the 
> way that topic map would be interpreted WRT the definitions in XTM 
> and/or ISO/IEC 13250--it is just a set of topics and associations.

I wasn't thinking that the XTM tags would change their semantics.  Rather, it
was the way that XML content in the general document was associated with the
topic map that I thought might be open to interpretation.  My thinking was that
you would insist that all links from the XTM content to the non-XTM content be
explicit in the topic map, rather than implicit based on
location/proximity/etc.  However, it struck me that this wasn't the only
possible interpretation, hence my original question.  That said, I seem to have
been flogging a proverbial dead horse, since there doesn't seem to be any
dissenting opinion, only people wondering how I could have conceived of other
interpretations.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
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MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
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