Re: [topicmaps-comment] TMs & XTM [Was: skills to create topic maps]

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com>]

Sam Hunting wrote:
> 
> [murray]
> > | In researching use of XTM in a conceptual graph/ontology usage I
> > | believe this will be necessary, esp. if an inference engine were to
> > | be desired.
> 
> [lars]
> > This I don't follow. Why would you build an inference engine on top
> > of a normalized XTM syntax instead of on top of a topic map engine?
> If
> > you have a topic map engine you don't need a normalized syntax. And
> > doing it on a topic map engine would be an awful lot easier.

I'm not sure how either of you managed to understand this statement
this way, but no, I'd not build an inference engine on top of syntax,
but on top of an engine. I don't understand the alternative either.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         <mailto:murray.altheim&#x40;sun.com>
XML Technology Center, Java and XML Software
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