TMCL role combination question

Robert Cerny <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:30:59 +0100

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Hello,

Let's take the example from [1] which restricts 'containment' to:

city (in) province (in) country (in) continent

If all these topic types have a common super type A and only A has topic role constraints for containment, do the role combination constraints still kick in and if so why?

Best,
Robert

[1] http://www.isotopicmaps.org/tmcl/2009-10-19/#sect-role-combination