Re: Associations in TM/XML

Hi Lars,

Thank you for you answer. Find a comment further down below.

Am 16.08.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Lars Heuer:

> [...]
>>> association only at one of the players. Or is it an error to have it
>>> at both? Or is both acceptable to allow flexible output depending on
>>> the requirements of the the TM/XML consuming process.
>
>> Acc. to my understanding this wouldn't be an error, just an redundant
>> information.
>
> I still think it wouldn't be an error, but you may get strange results
> if you use the TM/XML topic map in together with XSL(T): A
> stylesheet may not be prepared to deal with duplicates (that applies
> to names, occurrences etc. as well).

I was thinking actually the other way round: a stylesheet might  
expect association statements at certain elements and they are not  
there. If you only serialize them on one element it requires  
coordination between TM/JSON producer and consumer e.g. "take care  
you find all authorship associations at the person, but not at the  
documents!". I think the serialization procedure is quite explicit in  
the matter stating "For each association role of the topic, produce  
an ...", so i would consider it an error not to find it at all  
players. IMHO it is better not to require it at all players, but the  
spec says otherwise :)

Robert