Re: [topicmaps-comment] mergeMap Pointing to More Than OnetopicMapElement

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Does anyone disagree with this? If not, we will use it in the first
| draft of the new XTM syntax specification.

* Thomas B. Passin
| 
| d'accord

Good. :)
 
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Uh, yes. I have noted this as an issue with XTM, but personally I
| think that we should *not* allow XPointer expressions in <topicRef/>
| and <mergeMap/> references.

* Thomas B. Passin
|
| Hmm, then maybe we should not be using xlink?  I think your
| reasoning is good, but xlink does specifically use xpointer
| references.

Maybe it was a mistake to use XLink, after all. I think our choices
are to either not use XLink (but that requires a syntax change!) or
to restrict our XPointer usage. I don't like it, but I don't see what
else we can do.

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