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
Organization Semagia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> ... 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
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