Re: [topicmaps-comment] mergeMap Pointing to MoreThanOnetopicMapElement

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

* Lars Marius Garshol
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| I would be unhappy with any change at all, though. I think we should
| leave XTM 1.0 unchanged for as long as we possibly can, and then sit
| down and make a bunch of changes at the same time, producing XTM 1.1
| or 2.0. An XTM 1.01 I don't think justifies the cost, political or
| technical.

* W. Eliot Kimber
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| That seems like a reasonable concern. I'm not arguing for any particular
| time frame, just pointing out that the change itself is a small one.

Good. We're on the same page, then.
  
* Lars Marius Garshol
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| [...] the new syntax specification can fix this, without changing
| the syntax. At the moment, that is what I would prefer to do.
 
* W. Eliot Kimber
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| I would agree--all the ambiguities or underspecifications I've
| identified can be easily fixed through additional prose.

Excellent. Work is progressing on just that right now. With luck
something substantial will be published in good time before Montréal.

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