[topicmapmail] Superclass-subclass indentation in the Omnigat or

[Robert Barta]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:29:04AM -0500, Dichev, Christo wrote:
> > I think the standards people did a _good_ job not to hard-code a set
> > of relations in the XTM standard, like
....
> A similar argument can be applied  to "is-a" - I would classify this 
> relation also  application specific if one has to make a distinction 
> between "concrete instance" and "abstract instance".

Yes, I guess you could refine is-a as well. Finding good atoms in this
world is difficult.

A very orthodox, minimalistic approach to XTM and Topic Maps (which
was obviously not taken) would NOT have mentioned _ANY_ association
type in the same way as some programming languages often do not
themselves include any data type.

This would have reduced the practicality a bit, though.

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