Re: [xtm-wg] Re: Portal Markup Language and Topic Map Template

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[ sam hunting writes]
> > As far as "template" vs AF: at bottom we have a contractual issue
> > -- two or more parties come to an agreement on the semantics of an
> > information set.

[scott tsao writes:]
> It seems to me that the explicit agreements will be based on a common
> registry/repository facility [...] the common registry/repository 
> will be used for all kinds of metadata (in the generic sense), 
> including XML Namespace, DTD, XML Schema, RDF, Topic Maps, 
> Architecture Forms, etc.

These are syntaxes ABOUT WHICH contractual agreements will be made -- I
give you content validated with XML DTDs, you return data expressed as
RDF -- but they are not necessarily the syntaxes IN WHICH the
contractual agreements will be expressed. For that purpose, I believe
that topic maps are ideal.

S.

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