[sc34wg3] TMQL: Navigation "item"

Robert Barta rho at devc.at
Thu Oct 9 07:44:25 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:54:37PM +0200, Lars Heuer wrote:
> Comments against TMQL draft dtd. 2008-07-15.
> 
> 4.4 Navigation
> ==============
> 
> item
> ----
> Aside from the term "item" which is in my opinion a bit confusing
> since the TMDM uses the term Topic Maps *item*, I wonder why that axis
> produces just one item identifier. That behaviour is different from
> "locators" and "indicators" and it differs from TMDM where the [item
> identifiers] property is always a set. Is there a good reason why
> "item" does not produce a sequence of item identifiers? If the user
> wants to reduce the sequence to one item, she can use a postfix
> filter.

So maybe rename it also to 'items' and produce all of them? Why not?

\rho


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