[topicmapmail] Patterns in queries

[Alexander Johannesen]

Hi all,

Just wondering if someone has thought about patterns in queries, and
possibly naming them for better supporting optimisations and
discussions. I did browse through ;

   http://www.isotopicmaps.org/tmql/spec.html

but couldn't find anything, but that could be my lack of
understanding. Here's some examples of patterns I'm referring to (type
is loosely defined as 'instanceOf') ;

  - all topics of type "x"
  - all topics with occurrence of type "y" that exsist in associations
of type "z"
  - all topics somewhat related to topic "a" (all associations, unique list=
)
  - all assocations in which member topics are also part of
associations of type "c"

and so forth. I'm interested in what sort of patterns people have seen
over the years. This was possibly discussed at the start of TMQL?



Alex
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