[sc34wg3] Topic Maps land and SAM land

[Sam Hunting]

> Jan,
> 
> Maybe someone else's words may communicate this better to you:
> 
> SAM is *not* based on the XML infoset. 
> 
> Rather:
> 
> SAM uses a similar methodology to that used to define the XML infoset,
> to create a (largely, apart from merging) process-neutral data model.

The editor's draft says:

"The metamodel used in this document is the same as that used by the XML
Information Set [infoset]. "

Not sure what "methodology" means in this context. "methodolody" == "use
the same metamodel"?

Of course, after our discussion of "metamodel" and it's [non-]obviousness,
I went to the InfoSet specification to find a definition of the term, and
failed.

> SAM is a data model

Out of curiousity, is the W3C InfoSet a data model?


> 
> Ann W.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Algermissen [mailto:algermissen@acm.org] 
> Sent: 11 February 2003 23:18
> To: sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
> Subject: Re: [sc34wg3] Topic Maps land and SAM land
> 
> 
> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 
> > Now I'm surprised again: why do you say "a syntax processing model of 
> > a TM"? Where does syntax enter the picture?
> 
> The current official draft of the SAM is based on XML infoset. And XML
> infoset is what the current SAM's underlying processing model is.
> Without such a thing, it is impossible to make any sense of a processed
> syntax.
> 
> Suppose we wanted to define the SAM in RM terms, it would absolutely
> make sense to me to still base the processing model for XTM on XML
> infoset.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
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Sam Hunting
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