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Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] Occurrences of associations?


In message 
<71364ED209732849BD32A4D435A64642FF2330@WKCLRMA95008.na.wkglobal.com>, 
"Sperberg, Roger" <Roger.Sperberg@wolterskluwer.com> writes
>Topic Maps provides a solution to this that is not immediately obvious
>but which is quite simple to effect.
>
>You make a Topic that represents the Association and put your
>Occurrence(s) there. After all, you are making an assertion about the
>Association and not about either of the Topics that participate in it.

Thanks, Roger.  How then do you link your Association to the Topic that 
"represents" it?  My thoughts immediately went to "instanceOf", but of 
course that is also a property of a Topic, not an Association.

Richard
-- 
Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@light.demon.co.uk



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