Re: [xtm-wg] A challenge on "the graph"

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>]

Sam Hunting wrote:
> 
> [W. Eliot Kimber]
> > |
> > | There are a zillion different name spaces in topic map (topics by
> > | base name, characteristics by scope, etc.). Each of these would be
> > | naturally modeled as some sort of dictionary or index in the
> > | processing model
> 
> Dictionaries, eh? You're sure that this is a modelling viewpoint, as
> opposed to a Pythonic viewpoint?

Yes. You have to identify in the model what things represent name spaces
and what the rules for them are. Name spaces are dictionaries or
indexes. If you were defining it as a grove you would be defining these
as named node lists.

Cheers,

E.

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