[topicmapmail] Are Facets Really Simple After All?

[Thomas B. Passin]

Murray Altheim wrote:
> ...But I can't
> imagine that a "correct" occurrence of the Paris Topic would be
> "2003-11-23T11:34:55", "245,190", or "#bce033" (i.e., the creation
> date of the Topic in my application, the location of the Topic
> node in my TouchGraph visualization, or the colour of the displayed
> node, resp.). That just isn't right.

I agree, and there is a good reason why is just isn't right.  Those 
things belong to a UI proxy for the topic, rather than to the topic 
itself.  If you had created a topic for the screen object, then they 
*would* be suitable occurrences for *that* topic.  The "real" topic 
could be related to its UI proxy by means of an association.

I do not yet have an opinion about whether such UI proxy topics would be 
a good way to share topic map layout, but this notion clears up the 
"not-rightness" of the occurrences.

Cheers,

Tom P