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

["Bernard Vatant" <universimmedia@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks Murray. That was effectively unclear to me so far ...

----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Murray Altheim" <altheim@eng.sun.com>
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Envoyé : dimanche 18 mars 2001 09:33
Objet : Re: [xtm-wg] Binding topic maps without merging


> 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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