[tmcl-wg] TMCL Discussion on IRC and 2nd meeting today: Mar 28!

[Bernard Vatant]

Steve

I completely agree on that principle. Not an easy way, though ...

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[mailto:tmcl-wg-admin@isotopicmaps.org]De la part de Steve Pepper
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At 10:14 28.03.2003 +0100, Bernard Vatant wrote:
>What I understood during yesterday conversation is that TMCL would require
>that distinction, which means it would not support   topic maps that would
>not make it. Somehow, it would mean that TMCL would be less
>"ontology-neutral" that ISO 13250 is, in the sense that it would not
>support some "exotic" types of topic maps that do not want to make classes
>and instances "a priori" distinct types, and stand on more "fuzzy", or
less
>formal, ontologies.

In my opinion we should only be providing TMCL with the ability to enforce
the distinction between types and instances for applications that need to
do
so. However, it should be done in such a way that TMCL can also be used
with
what you call "ontology-neutral" topic maps.

Steve

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