[topicmapmail] DRAFT: Datatypes for XML Topic Maps

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Kal Ahmed
| 
| Firstly, have you looked at any of the proposals for structuring
| scope [1] [2]. I think that a structured scope is needed for your
| proposed datatyping mechanism to work.

I should probably point out that this is issue prop-scope-structure,
which we resolved during the Baltimore meetings. We decided to not add
structure to scope, so if you want this capability I guess you will
need to say so in comments to the SAM. There will be a new version of
it quite soon, but I'm not entirely sure of the timing yet.
 
| Secondly, have you given any thought to ways in which derived simple
| datatypes and complex could be built from the datatypes you have
| presented here.  Intuition tells me that a "derivation" and
| "restriction" association type could assist in creating derived
| simple types, and that reification would play a role in building
| complex datatypes...

That's an interesting idea. Would be cool to see some examples, just
to get a feel for what it would look like.

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