Re: TMQL: Direct (super|sub)types?
Lars Heuer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.xtm.general |
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| Organization | Semagia |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Benjamin, [...] > Some engines treat type-instance as associations, some don't. Some > treat supertype-subtype as associations, some don't. Who cares? Who cares how MySQL/Oracle/PostgreSQL works internally? Who cares how Sesame/JRDF/Virtouso solve SPARQL queries? > In Topic Maps APIs (e.g. TMAPI, MaJorToM-API), some users (including > me) choose to hide those special associations while they are managed [...] Let me repeat myself: Who cares? To give an example: Who cares how you deserialize XTM/CTM topic maps as long as you provide the correct CXTM serialization? CXTM does not care about the internal representation and TMQL shouldn't care about it (BTW TMAPI does not care either). Best regards, Lars -- Semagia <http://www.semagia.com> <https://twitter.com/larsheuer/> Twitter <http://www.topicmaps.de/mailinglist/> German Topic Maps mailing list <http://tinytim.sourceforge.net/> Open Source Topic Maps engine <http://mappa.semagia.com/> Mappa - Python Topic Maps engine