Re: [xtm-wg] Does processing a TM yield one graph, or several?

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

> (I hope and believe that grove plans have nothing to do with this
> issue, either conceptually or literally.  I'm curious to understand
> why you think they might -- seems like I'm missing something, here.)

Groves, being, like "graphs", graphs, can be humongous; so one wants to
"filter" the grove to make it usable for a particular purpose. I
thought that was what grove plans did. [WARNING: If that's wrong, if
possible just tell me No, and cite the HyTime clause, in the interests
of time, and space.]

So, graphs potentially being gigantic, one might wish to filter them,
too. If that was what you wanted to do, I proposed to argue against it,
in the interests of delivering in December.

> Exactly one topic map graph always results from
> processing a topic map document. 

Good. 

> (Come to think of it, this is very relevant to another discussion
> we're bound to have: the <xtm> container element that contains
> multiple <topicMap> elements.  Any of them might be regarded as hubs
> or potential hubs, and the <xtm> container element should really say
> which one(s) are intended to be regarded as hubs -- starting points
> for graph construction processes.)

An alternative, to be discussed in Dallas, is to forget about <xtm>.
Then the <topicMap> would become the one and only starting point for
the graph construction process.

S.

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