Hi Bob, ... TopicMaps.org could provide such a service or OASIS could be a good candidate (because they maintain also the XML repository). --Holger -- H....
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Hans Holger Rath
hhr@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:14 am
Hi Bob, ... Let me answer these two questions together. empolis will release its Topic Map product "K42" in version 1.0 mid of January 2001 covering TM...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 2, 2001 3:56 pm
Having proposed that Chris Angus become an Invited Guest to the XTM Authoring Group, I am now in a position to announce the results of the ballot. I have...
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Jan 2, 2001 4:28 pm
Not true. I recall voting for Chris! I'll count the votes for Bernard today. Jack ... From: Daniel Rivers-Moore <daniel.rivers-moore@...> To:...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 2, 2001 4:49 pm
Sorry Jack, and thanks! So that makes 13 YES votes and 4 non-votes (unless I missed someone else's vote as well!) Daniel ... From: Jack Park...
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rho@...
Jan 3, 2001 12:40 am
... )+> ... section ... I probably have missed the answer to this (?). There is also some discrepancy between <!ELEMENT variant ( parameters, ( variantName |...
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rho@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:02 am
... subjectIdentity? , ... I personally would strongly favour this, because we could eventually drop the concept of a 'topic' as a whole. This would let us...
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mgomari@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:21 pm
Hi, I was wondering how to express an inference rule in XTM format. I encountered different ways to do that but somehow confused and not sure what is the...
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:29 pm
This might be a dumb question from the Campaign for Neat Logical Patterns contingent, because I simply haven't had chance to read much of the text of the spec...
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Hans Holger Rath
hhr@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:36 pm
... See chapter 5 in my Extreme Markup 2000 paper "Topic Maps self-control" you will find at http://www.egroups.com/files/xtm-wg/Documents/rath0315.PDF It does...
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V.Vasant
vasant@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:18 pm
hi, I am a newcomer to this technology(Topic Maps),and I find this technology really great and interesting,but is all that is put forth here really...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:49 pm
Thanks to "rho" for this response. I certainly like the "relativistic" approach he/she expounds. I believe it is in harmony with Murray's recent contribution...
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Hans Holger Rath
hhr@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:32 pm
Hi, Yes, there are some implementations. One can be find at http://www.empolis.co.uk - look for K42. It is our Topic Map product which can be downloaded for...
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Peter Newcomb
peter@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:37 pm
[Peter Jones <peterj@...> on Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:34:27 -0000 ] ... In the case of an association element, the instanceOf element serves to type the...
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Chris Angus
chris.angus@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:46 pm
Jean I confirm that I will be attending the meeting Kind regards Chris Angus Shell Services International Tel: +44 16977 41504 Fax: 41666 ...
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Chris Angus
chris.angus@...
Jan 3, 2001 5:49 pm
Daniel I have confirmed to Jean that I will be attending. I was intending to travel over on Thursday evening by Eurostar, what are your travel arrangements? ...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:16 pm
Peter Newcomb's response points up the very issue I raised in my email about syntax issues. We should NOT be using the instanceOf subelement of association for...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:28 pm
I shall be attending. Best regards Daniel ... From: Jean Delahousse [mailto:jean.delahousse@...] Sent: 26 December 2000 16:56 To: Xtm-Wg@Egroups. Com ...
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Bernard Vatant
bernard@...
Jan 3, 2001 11:10 pm
rho@... wrote : "... we could eventually drop the concept of a 'topic' as a whole. This would let us live in a highly _relativistic_ world in which ...
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Robert Barta
rho@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:10 am
... Bernard Vatant wrote: ... Last trimester I had a small "field-test" of topic map authoring with my students, some of them IT youngsters, some being non-IT...
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 4, 2001 12:37 pm
For reasons stated in other mails posted to the editors I do not believe the type of 'scope' to be either topic or association or topic map as these constructs...
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Daniel Rivers-Moore
daniel.rivers-moore@...
Jan 4, 2001 12:54 pm
My view on this: Peter Jones is right in what he says below. The Conceptual Model does not show Scope as a subtype of topic, or of association, or of topic...
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 4, 2001 1:00 pm
... Let me just qualify that statement a bit before everyone screams 'references to topics!' in my face. In a scope construct, you make references to topics....
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 4, 2001 4:39 pm
1) Then is a topic's role in a scope one of its characteristics too? 'scope participant' had me confused for a while. I had to read a long way to realise that...
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:27 pm
I'll be there. cheers Peter ... From: Daniel Rivers-Moore [mailto:daniel.rivers-moore@...] Sent: 04 January 2001 00:28 To: 'xtm-wg@egroups.com' Subject:...
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Jan 4, 2001 5:58 pm
Unfortunately, at the moment there exists no funding for por moi. I will not be attending. Jack ...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Jan 4, 2001 7:20 pm
[Peter Jones:] ... A scope is a set of topics. A scope is not a set of references to topics; it's a set of topics, full stop. It's true that, syntactically,...
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Peter Jones
peterj@...
Jan 5, 2001 10:58 am
Hi Steve, OK, that all makes sense to me, except I still have a question about the following that I'm not sure you've answered. SN wrote: "A scope is a set of...
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Tanguy Coenen
tanguy.coenen@...
Jan 5, 2001 2:26 pm
Hi, I only recently started reading the messages in this group, so if my question was already answered somwhere else, please indulge me. I read all the...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Jan 5, 2001 4:44 pm
... Yes and no. Yes, because in a very real sense, a topic *consists* of roles played in associations with other topics. (This is especially obvious in the ...
