[topicmapmail] LTM 1.3 Change Proposal

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Murray Altheim
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| The '<' character is XML markup, and I think Lars Marius has been
| wise to avoid using characters that would make it difficult to embed
| LTM in XML, XHTML or HTML documents.

The '<' character does seem more intuitively appropriate for this
function, but as you point out there are serious problems with it.
(That '<' is currently not used in LTM is in large part thanks to you,
though.)
 
| I note that Kal has developed some additional PSIs for type
| hierarchies that have a more specific definition than the one in XTM
| 1.0, [...]

If you mean the hierarchical-association-type PSI that is actually
less specific than the xtm:superclass-subclass PSI, and also on a
different level, since it's a type of association type. (In fact,
xtm:superclass-subclass is an instance of
kal:hierarchical-association-type.)

| but for my purposes and requirements I kinda prefer both the
| ubiquity of using XTM's existing association, and frankly am not so
| concerned with the logical precision of the difference. 

The difference is *big* (assuming we are talking about the same PSI),
but even so I think you've made the right choice.

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