[sc34wg3] Almost arbitrary markup in resourceData

[Murray Altheim]

Mason, James David (MXM) wrote:
>  i'm away from work and don't have a chance to think this through in detail,
> but my interest here (and in the similar baseNameString case) is in having
> the ability to bring in GIs from a foreign namespace. Bringing in things
> from the XTM namespace looks like dangerous recursion. My quick response is
> that the topicRef in resourceData is simply meaningiless garbage.

Jim,

Is that GIs from *any* foreign namespace? What about
interoperability? What is an application supposed to
do with such markup? Won't that create islands of
proprietary functionality? The Microsoft-ization of
XTM?

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
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