[topicmapmail] multiple Source Locators

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Kal Ahmed
| 
| I agree. However, allowing multiple subject locators doesn't address
| this issue at all - it just creates more confusion by allowing a
| topic to have subject locators that address multiple abstractions
| (and possibly even multiple data items). IMO, the old heuristic of
| zero or one subject locator per subject is a lot easier to
| understand, communicate and design around.
 
Now I'm confused. As far as I recall, you agreed with the subject
locator decision made in the ISO meeting.  Does this mean that you've
changed your mind, or that I'm somehow mistaken?

| I'm intrigued. As I understand it, in RDF you can use URIs as the
| equivalent of TM's subject locators as they are currently defined
| (as in the world famous "http://.... author 'Ora Lassila'". 

You can do this, but you can also use URIs the way we use subject
identifiers. RDF doesn't define what the semantics of the reference
are.

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