Re: [xtm-wg] Binding topic maps without merging

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Bernard Vatant wrote:
[...]
> But we would like to somehow bind these two TM through their common
> subjects. Let's say the subject X is represented in TM1 by topic T1 and in
> TM2 by topic T2. T1 is hence a good Subject Indicator for T2 in TM2, and
> the other way round. What would be the correct XTM syntax for such a
> binding ? I suppose <topicRef> would not be correct since T1 and T2 are not
> in the same Map, so it could not be anything else that
> <subjectIndicatorRef> - My hunch is that is a weird recursive thing, bound
> to induce strange things in a query process !

You are labouring under one misconception here: the <topicRef> element doesn't
require that references be to <topic> elements in the same document, only
that they point to them in some XTM document. You can certainly point to
a <topic> in a different XTM document. We've done that in our language.xtm
and country.xtm topic map when we use core.xtm#en to identify "English."

Murray

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Murray Altheim                            <mailto:altheim&#x40;eng.sun.com>
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