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Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Topic Naming Constraint question
* Thomas B. Passin | | The question of whether these two acronym expansions are "really" | the same or not is actually one that even a human might not be able | to answer. Well, actually the script has perfect knowledge of this. There are two separate <STANDARD> elements, and so it knows that these two standards are different. The trouble is just that topic map software insists that they be merged. | 1) In Lars' example, the two topics have two basenames each. The | script could require a match on all basenames before automatically | merging the topics. Nope. The spec allows us no such leeway. If one basename is equal to that of another topic (with the same scope) those two topics must be merged. | 2) The harder case in when there is only one basename for each | topic, the names match, perhaps all the other indicators for merging | match too, but in reality they should be separate topics. This | situation would call for a human decision, but how could the script | know that? It can't. In this case also the spec decides what is to happen. There is no leeway at all. The problem here is really the spec decides what you have to do, and it doesn't seem to work out very well when matched up with what people actually do and want to do. | At some time in the future, when (if!) web pages are marked up with | all kinds of RDF metadata, it will be easier to automate this task. Not really. I'm starting out with a highly structured XML document, so you would really have no better starting point if you used an RDBMS or an RDF model. --Lars M. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://us.click.yahoo.com/kWP7PD/pYNCAA/4ihDAA/2n6YlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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