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[Len Bullard:] > If the topic map concepts are truly generalized, then exporting the > properties and values of the relational tables, relationships, > queries and scripting logic should enable such. Which is why I brought up the subject of groves and property sets. Documents conforming to the topic map architecture, like documents conforming to other inheritable information architectures, have semantic properties that emerge when they are processed (made ready for some useful application-defined purpose). Property sets are a good way to give names to those properties, so that the mapping between any application's internal representation (including internal representations that take the form of relational tables) and the underlying abstract data model (the property set) of the inheritable interchange architecture can be rigorous, testable, and easy to implement without guesswork, and so that the properties represented by the application-internal form can be addressed by other documents and their applications. > Steve brings up the point that I do wish would be looked at > seriously by other language communities: the potential of using > property set/grove concepts to create information standards that are > independent of lexical/syntax representation and implementation. Thanks, Len. (I wish I had said that!) -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc. srn@t... http://www.techno.com ftp.techno.com voice: +1 972 231 4098 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 0004 x137) fax +1 972 994 0087 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 3152) 3615 Tanner Lane Richardson, Texas 75082-2618 USA xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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