[topicmapmail] Controlled Linking and Modular Topic Maps

[Murray Altheim]

Murray Altheim wrote:
> A correction in my example syntax.
> 
> Murray Altheim wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>  1. using explicit <association> elements. Since the 'actuate'
>>     behaviour is meant to apply to the entire link/association,
>>     the presence of one of the four actuate PSIs in the <scope>
>>     of an <association> element is meant to indicate linking
>>     behaviour. E.g.:

Ack. My apologies. Before anyone corrects me, I will do so myself;
I probably should have thought this through a bit better before
posting. I'd come up with an implementation solution for the deferred
mergemap problem that worked, and was trying to work backwards to
come up with a suitable syntax. It didn't occur to me until after
I'd clicked 'Send' that my current proposal simply doesn't work as
is, since no links except those within <mergeMap> actually demand
the loading of an external Topic Map, they all just create Topics
within the current map. Duh.

So I think the proposal will only to apply (whatever PSI, in
whatever way) to <mergeMap> and its functionality, not in general
to links within the Topic Map. I'm still trying to come up with a
reasonable way to express this in XTM and LTM syntax... ideas welcome.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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