[topicmapmail] This is weird modeling, but is it valid XTM ?

[Murray Altheim]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * Murray Altheim
[...]
> | I do agree that this is "mucking" at the syntax level, though one
> | must remember that at the time, under the intense pressure we were
> | under to deliver on deadline, and because we were in new territory,
> | the publication of PSIs was something that only in retrospect can we
> | see (perhaps) how best to approach. 
> 
> I agree completely. This is not meant as criticism of what was done
> then; I only want to make sure that people using XTM are aware of what
> is happening with the standard, *and* that they are happy with it.
> 
> | And even given a lot of thought about it, there are still some use
> | cases that seem unsolved.
> 
> Possibly. If you know of any we'd be more than glad to hear of them.
>  
> | And there are still some good reasons IMO to do this kind of thing,
> | it's just that we haven't found them all yet. I imagine that the
> | application of XTM syntax has yet to be explored in its entirety,
> | and especially as a foundation of TM/XTM projects continue to emerge
> | more will be found.
> 
> That is quite possible.
[...]

I'm thinking of the kinds of applications that perhaps the creators of
RDF hadn't envisioned, such as XUL and OWL. If Topic Maps are for mapping,
and the map is an XML document such as in SVG or some geospatial markup,
or perhaps a representation of graphics or geospatial data *in* XTM,
then one might want to point right at the syntax itself, maybe even at
a level we haven't yet allowed (via ID). I imagine that people will
spend a lot of time playing with scope, and perhaps developing complex
processes/processors for handling it, recursively.

Just some off-the-top ideas... it seems open to playing, which is the
way it should be.

Murray

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