RE: [xtm-wg] XTM-ISS Important XLink difference in DTDs

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[Graham writes:]
> RDF has a very powerful mechanism for reified statements that is
> enabled through the simplicity of the model. Topic maps self
> inconsistency prevents us from 'doing' reified stataments in an
> sensible and easy way. In order to define a reified statment it is
> necessary to create a topic for the association. This is a hack
> becuase the structures do not support closure.

Graham, for the peanut gallery, can (1) you give a simple example in
words (no images) of what "doing" a reified statement means, and (2)
explain the meaning and implication of lack of "closure"?

Sam

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<? "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
    -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations ?>

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