[sc34wg3] Use cases for occurrence variants

[Murray Altheim]

Steve Pepper wrote:
[...]
> I would almost go as far as to say that without variants, occurrences
> are virtually useless. It surprises me that more people haven't thrown
> up their hands in despair. Maybe no-one is actually using topic maps?

Pleeez.

Devil's advocate and all aside, the world of Topic Maps has survived
quite well without this new proposed feature. I certainly have no
need of occurrence variants in any of my work, nor do I conceive
that I will in the future.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                  <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/>
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK

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