[topicmapmail] Wiki/WebLog application built on top of topicmaps...

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from "Guy Murphy" <guy.murphy@easynet.co.uk> on Wed, 15 Jan
2003 10:02:12 -0000

Dear Guy,

> Now 100 topic creations later, each topic that's created has a single highly
> useful link by virtue of the "created" association to the user that created
> it... the user on the other hand has 100 "created" associations from their
> topic, 95 of which they aren't remotely interested in.... Now I'm aware that
> others might be interested in what topics a user has created, but I'm
> looking to fulfil pragmatic user requirements not purity of form.

In terms of pure implementation, bi-directional links aren't much harder than
omni-directional links.  If you had implemented associations as topics, you
could have associated the uninteresting links with a
"hidden-because-user-is-not-interested" topic, and filtered them out of the
user's interface that way.  Would that not solve the problem, or have I
misunderstood?

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
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FpML AWG Member (Financial Products Markup Language)
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