Re: TMQL - Proposal: Removal of reifier axis
Lars Heuer <[email protected]> Sun, 1 May 2011 02:12:30 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.xtm.general |
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| Organization | Semagia |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[...] > ... and it would be one more argument why we shouldn't introduce a > "type" axis for assocs/roles/occs/names and a "types" axis for topics > (the plural term vs. singular term issue). Singular terms (even if > they return multiple results) would work for topics and every Topic > Maps construct != topic. Using plural terms would work, too. But it wouldn't help TMDM/TMAPI addicts, since they have have to state "assoc/types" even they assume that an association should return a singleton type. 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