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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] mergeMap Pointing to More Than OnetopicMapElement
* Murray Altheim | | According to the XTM 1.0 specification it *is* possible to have an XTM | document's root element be something other than <topicMap>, but only | if it's an element in the XTM namespace. Eg., you are forbidden from | having <html> (in the XHTML namespace) as the root element of an XTM | 1.0 document. I'm afraid that's wrong, Murray. The second paragraph of Section 3.5.1 is crystal clear on this. It says: "The <topicMap> element can be [...] the root of a subtree inside an XML document containing other information than the topic map itself." That's pretty clear, isn't it? | Point is (I think) is that XTM was designed as an interchange | format. We had to strike some balance between flexibility and | constraint, [...]. I don't think XTM benefits from being too | flexible, [...] I agree with this, and have all along. | The recent discussion of inclusion of XLink in XTM bears this out -- | we *could* have got by without it, but wanted to be considered as | "playing well with others" in the XML community, ie., using "the | linking language for XML" in an XML document type. I agree. That may have been a mistake. -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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