Re: [topicmaps-comment] Occurrences of associations?

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

Hi Richard and Roger,

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* Richard Light
>
> 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.

This is reification, and in XTM 1.0 you do it as follows:

   <association id="myassoc">
     ...
   </association>

   <topic id="assoctopic">
     <subjectIdentity>
       <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="#myassoc"/>
     ...

Omnigator supports this, so you can use Omnigator to verify that this  
works correctly. tolog also supports reification.

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