Re: Scope support in Ontopoly

I wasn't aware that this couldn't be expressed in TMCL.

That would appear to be a major omission. I can't imagine a multilingual topic
map for which one would *not* want to have an enforceable policy regarding which
*specific* languages should be used for which particular types of name and
occurrence.

Will you register this as a TMCL issue?

Steve


| -----Original Message-----
| From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
| Lars Marius Garshol
| Sent: 01 July 2009 20:15
| To: [email protected]
| Subject: Re: Scope support in Ontopoly
| 
| 
| 
| * Steve Pepper
| >
| > I could envisage a variant of this ("Fixed-2"), based on an extended
| > definition of "given field":
| >
| >   ["s-type"] + [type] + [scope]
| >
| > This would allow us to do quite a bit more than today. For example a
| > topic could have two (default) names (of type 'tmdm:name-type'), one
| > of which was in the unconstrained scope and the other in the scope
| > 'norwegian'. (This is not possible with "Fixed-1".)
| 
| This is not expressible with TMCL today. You can say
| 
|    language isa tmcl:topic-type.
|    # define 5 instances of language
| 
|    topic-type has-occurrence(field, 5, 5).
|    field has-scope(language, 1, 1).
| 
| but you cannot require the five occurrences of the type field to all
| have different instances of language in their scopes, except by using
| a user-defined constraint.
| 
| > Assuming we agree that multilingual topic maps are best done using
| > scoped names, rather than typed names, then this capability is
| > clearly something that we need.
| 
| It is not easy to avoid that conclusion, no.
| 
| --Lars M.
| http://www.garshol.priv.no/tmphoto/
| http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/
| 
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