[topicmapmail] eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Conal Tuohy
| 
| I've only taken a brief look at it, and it's far too late at night
| to be reading this kind of thing. It certainly owes a lot to topic
| maps but it's clearly NOT a subset of XTM syntactically.

You may find this useful:

  <URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.xfml/41 >

I thought there was more debate about this, but couldn't find it.
Anyway, what I wrote about faceted classification, which Murray
objected to, is definitely valid for XFML. (My conclusion was that
XFML doesn't represent faceted classification as Murray understands
the term, and possibly not as it is generally understood either.)
 
(We've never done anything with that XFML importer, though. It would
be interesting to hear if there's any interest in such a thing, and
whether people think a common PSI set for expressing XFML in topic
maps would be useful. (Some of it could probably recycle Kal's faceted
classification PSIs.))

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