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Re: Annotations in XPath-NG? (Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 con

• To: keith@w...
• Subject: Re: Annotations in XPath-NG? (Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0600
• Cc: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@j...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Keith W. Boone" <keith@w...> of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:05:12 EDT." <LEEOLHFCOBHIBMPBAGGCEEPIELAA.keith@w...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Actually, I am somewhat interested in where they came from.  In our library
> of medical records, we have annotations on sentences attesting to codes that
> are justified by that sentence.  I would want to identify the source of the
> code [one of several software modules, human review, et cetera].  That's
> actually not terribly difficult.  If I can get to the element, then I can
> get to it's parent or ancestor which could tell me that information.

This is what makes me think your use case is much different from that of, say 
data type annotations or XForms properties.  I think your use case is better 
addressed at application level.  When I've run into such need before, I've 
used RDF.  XLink could be another option.  I think topic maps would be as 
well: No reason I can imagine why a subject couldn't be a particular node in 
an XML docuemnt.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html

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